Synopses & Reviews
This excellent volume explores three forms of pluralist theory -- those based on historical doctrines of custom and tradition, Catholic doctrines of natural law and subsidiarity, and Calvinist doctrines of sphere sovereignty and creation -- and compares and evaluates each of these forms of pluralism within the context of American thought.
Table of Contents
Introduction : The question of pluralism -- History, the unfolding of society, and human fulfillment -- The weight of history : an introduction to the readings -- Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke (1790) -- Unbelief and revolution / G. Groen van Prinsterer (1847) -- Community in historical perspective / Otto von Gierke (1868) -- Political thought from Gerson to Grotius / John Neville Figgis (1907) -- Doing theology in a revolutionary situation / Jos