Abstract
In his address, Professor Calhoun used American Christian abolitionism to illustrate the beneficial role that religion can play in political debate. Surveying the past two millennia, I argue that Christian political thought has protected liberty in every era of the church’s dramatic history. Along the way, I rebut critics—from the left and right—who urge that Christianity’s political influence has been unhelpful or harmful. I also seek to show that statements like “religion has no place in politics” are best understood as expressions of arbitrary bias.
Recommended Citation
Ian Huyett, Church History, Liberty, and Political Morality: A Response to Professor Calhoun, 74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 546 (2018), https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr-online/vol74/iss2/14
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