Os Guinness

The Global Public Square

Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity

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Produktbeschreibung

Logos Bookstores' Best Book in Christianity and Culture How do we live with our deepest differences? In a world torn by religious conflict, the threats to human dignity are terrifyingly real. Some societies face harsh government repression and brutal sectarian violence, while others are divided by bitter conflicts over religion's place in public life. Is there any hope for living together peacefully? Os Guinness argues that the way forward for the world lies in promoting freedom of religion and belief for people of all faiths and none. He sets out a vision of a civil and cosmopolitan global public square, and how it can be established by championing the freedom of the soul-the inviolable freedom of thought, conscience and religion. In particular he calls for leadership that has the courage to act on behalf of the common good. Far from utopian, this constructive vision charts a course for the future of the world. Soul freedom is not only a shining ideal but a dire necessity and an eminently practical solution to the predicaments of our time. We can indeed maximize freedom and justice and learn to negotiate deep differences in public life. For a world desperate for hope at a critical juncture of human history, here is a way forward, for the good of all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: IVP
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780830837670
• ISBN-10: 0830837671
• Artikelnr.: 36601580

Autorenporträt

Os Guinness (D.Phil., Oxford) is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including Time for Truth, The Case for Civility and A Free People's Suicide. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he was the founder of the Trinity Forum and a drafter of both The Williamsburg Charter and The Global Charter of Conscience. He lives near Washington, DC.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Golden Key
2. For All the World
3. A War of Spirits
4. First Freedom First
5. Death by a Thousand Cuts
6. Dueling Visions
7. Looking in the Wrong Place
8. A Civil and Cosmopolitan Public Square
9. Later Than We Think
The Global Character of Conscience
Acknowledgments
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index