Liberty for All: Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age
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2021 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (Public Theology & Current Events)
Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about the erosion of their freedom to assemble and to follow their convictions, while not seeming as concerned about publicly defending the rights of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and atheists to do the same.
Andrew T. Walker, an emerging Southern Baptist public theologian, argues for a robust Christian ethic of religious liberty that helps the church defend religious freedom for everyone in a pluralistic society. Whether explicitly religious or not, says Walker, every person is striving to make sense of his or her life. The Christian foundations of religious freedom provide a framework for how Christians can navigate deep religious difference in a secular age. As we practice religious liberty for our neighbors, we can find civility and commonality amid disagreement, further the church’s engagement in the public square, and become the strongest defenders of religious liberty for all. Foreword by noted Princeton scholar Robert P. George.
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- Argues for a robust Christian ethic of religious liberty.
- Provides a framework for how Christians can navigate deep religious.
- Makes a profound and compelling case that religious freedom is important.
Liberty for All delivers a robust treatment of the concept of religious liberty, a notion not merely political, merely modern, or merely American, but one, as Andrew Walker expertly shows, that gets at the heart of what it means to bear God's image, to exercise moral agency, and to live with love toward all neighbors.
--Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
In a time when the term ‘religious liberty’ has become a byword for bigotry among some, Andrew Walker pushes back against this narrow-minded prejudice and argues for why honoring and defending freedom of religious conscience is essential to the public good. By defending the right to be wrong about God, both believers and nonbelievers stand up for what it means to be fully human. And, as Walker contends, Christians become more fully who Christ calls us to be. This book appears as a lighthouse in a gathering storm.
--Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
Walker synthesizes religious liberty, which is commonly regarded as a social rather than religious value, with the major doctrines of the Christian faith and the metanarrative of Scripture itself. Freedom of worship is indeed an inalienable right, not because of the substance of one’s religious beliefs but because of the substance of one’s status as God’s image bearer. As hostility toward the Christian faith increases, few ideas are worth contending for with such urgency as the claim that liberty is indeed for everyone.
--Katie McCoy, assistant professor of theology in women’s studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Title: Liberty for All: Defending Everyone's Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age
- Author: Andrew T. Walker
- Publisher: Brazos
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 258
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781493431151, 9781587434495, 1493431153, 1587434490, 9781587435331, 1587435330
- Resource ID: LLS:9781493431151
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-19T20:07:37Z