Theology, Democracy, and the Project of Liberalism (CrossCurrents Winter 2006)

We are indeed living in a world marked by increasing fundamentalism, sectarianism, nationalism, and violence. With so much of today's "God-talk" resulting in zealotry, bloody conflict, and murderous clashes between warring theologies in the public square, how do we as persons of peaceable faith name ourselves - and render God's name - in history? This edition offers articles by Bill Moyers - "9/11 and God's Sport"; Gary Dorrien - "American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, Decline, Renewal, Ambiguity"; Peter Dula and Alex Sider - "Radical Democracy, Radical Ecclesiology"; Robert P. Jones and Melissa C. Stewart - "The Unintended Consequences of Dixieland Postliberalism"; James Logan - "Liberalism, Race, and Stanley Hauerwas"; Stanley Hauerwas - "Democratic Time: Lessons Learned from Yoder and Wolin"; Holly White - "Practicing Camus"; John D. Caputo - "Jacques Derrida (1930-2004); also a book review of "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis" by Jimmy Carter; and a poetry section.