John Owen

John M. Owen IV is AMb. Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and author, most recently, of Confronting Political Islam (Princeton, 2015).

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Retrieving Christian Liberalism
Retrieving Christian Liberalism

Orthodox Christianity does not demand liberalism, but it can provide an alternative grounding for a form of liberalism that respects religious beliefs and institutions more than the early twenty-first-century version does.

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