It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
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Nadia UrbinatiNadia Urbinati, a specialist on liberal and socialist thought, took her doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence and has taught at New York, Pennsylvania, Princeton and now Columbia Universities. Her book Mill on democracy was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2002. Recent articlesWords matter
The novel feature of
the new terrorism is its religious character. The challenge this
presents to democracy is a linguistic as well as a security one. For
the imprecision of the language we use to address it – especially that
of good and evil – carries the danger of internalising an
anti-political threat to our values. To avoid this, we must both focus
on the specific, and reaffirm the secular, public sphere as the common
ground of democratic concern.
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