POL 644 Modern Christian Political Thought
Christian civilization is the source of the modern world and subsequently finds itself separated from that to which it has given birth. This course examines the complex relationship between Christianity and modernity suggested by this observation. Can the modern world flourish on its own, without reference to the framing theological horizon from which it has been derived? That is the question at the core of the modern experiment. Increasingly the answer has been negative, thereby suggesting that there is not only a place for Christian political thought but that at the most fundamental level no other theoretical reflection is possible. Political thought in the contemporary setting, if it reaches to the limits of rationality, discovers itself as Christian political thought.
Cross Listed Courses
POL 410A, POL 544, POL 644