The dark night of liberalism
In the face of a critique that blends left- and right-wing thought, is liberalism exhausted?
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Catholic features in The Tablet: Christianity and politics, by Theo Hobson
I am no fan of post-liberal theology. But in a sense I am grateful to it. It has reopened the question of theopolitics, Christianity’s relationship to politics. Conventional theology has evaded this. It has vaguely affirmed liberal democracy, and it has vaguely bemoaned aspects of liberalism. It has allowed itself to be diminished by the reign of liberalism, deprived of a coherent politics. It has failed to develop a grand account of its civilisational purpose, incorporating the good of liberalism. That is why the ghostly reactionary version of Christian politics has bounced back.
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