“Our Secular Future: The redefinition of religious liberty in American society” is a promising and threatening reflection by Richard R. Reno in the Jesuit-based weekly America (February 24, 2014). It turns out that the article deals more with the subtitle “religious liberty” than with “secularity” in “our” future.
Reno, a former professor of theological ethics at Creighton University, has given much thought to the religious-liberty theme, and joins the many current addressers of that theme in American politics. One hopes Reno will also explore the larger contexts of “our secular future,” since reducing that topic to politics, jurisprudence, and partisan themes does not do justice to the discontents and urgencies of the present time.
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