Separation Anxiety
David Hollinger: God and Politics, 24 January 2008
The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West
by Mark Lilla.
Knopf, 334 pp., $26, September 2007,978 1 4000 4367 5 Show More
by Mark Lilla.
Knopf, 334 pp., $26, September 2007,
“... various 1960s radical movements, sanctify the modern state? Lilla doesn’t even ask the question. Martin Luther King, whatever else he may have been, was a liberal Protestant root and branch. Might he, too, be relevant to Lilla’s story? Some of what Lilla misses is encapsulated in the proceedings of a meeting of 377 ... ”