Series: Jonathan Rauch and the Liberal Seduction of Christianity (4 parts)

Part III: A New Political Theology of "Agency?"

Rauch presents his proposal for his “Gospel of Compromise,” we have noted, as a recovery of a “thick Christianity,” as opposed, that is, to the “sharp,” that is, conservatively accented version. He regards his favored version as “thick” because he thinks it offers a way of reconciling human and divine law (95), a way of seeing liberalism’s “permanent pr…