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Moralizing Economics: A Feminist Ethic of Care/by Erika C. Jahn
In his aptly titled essay, “Freedom and Unfreedom”, William T. Cavanaugh concerns himself with distinguishing between nuanced differences of freedom in order to judge – and judge we must – the justness of our economic exchanges and to what extent they enliven and enrich our freedom and ability to flourish as human beings. Particularly, Cavanaugh […]
An Examination of Ronald Thiemann’s Religion in Public Life/ by Erika C. Jahn
April 23, 2010
The wall of separation between religion and politics erected and sustained by classical liberalism perpetuates the notion that religious belief is discriminatory, intolerant, and at times fanatical, and as such is unable to participate in the public realm. Ronald Thiemann, in a variety of contexts, confronts the presumption that one’s personal beliefs cannot and should […]
Sharing the Public Space: Human Rights and Religion in Canada and France/by Erika C. Jahn
November 30, 2008
To create citizens in a strong individual sense of belonging to the French national community, rather than to a particular racial, ethnic or religious community…France has a particular approach to minority rights. Indeed, it takes the view that it does not have minorities. McGoldwick 42-43 If the supreme value that rights seek to protect is […]
The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation/ Barbara R. Rossing/Basic Books, 2005./Review by Erika C. Jahn
November 30, 2008
“Rapture theology” orients itself around the second coming of Christ and its adherents find in the Book of Revelation the prophetic delineation of the events surrounding the end of the world and the rapture of Gods people from the earth. In her book, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation, […]
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A Return From Exile 
July 23, 2010
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