Cross Purposes
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Cross Purposes
| Full title | Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy |
|---|---|
| Author | Jonathan Rauch |
| Published | 2025 |
| Pages | 168 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Rauch, a lifelong atheist, argues that American Christianity is a load-bearing wall of the liberal order, and that its corrosion — into what he calls thin and sharp variants — is a problem for democracy whether or not you believe any of it. |
Where I heard about it
- A saved Amazon link — I saved the link without a note of who pointed me to it.
Connections
- Christianity · Democracy — the two halves of the bargain.
- Religious Intellectualism · People Over Politics — the portfolio ideas this sits across.
- Dominion — the other book saved in this note arguing that secular liberalism runs on Christian inheritance.
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