Clash of Orthodoxies by Robert P George
In The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, Robert George tackles the issues at the heart of the contemporary conflict of worldviews. Secular liberals typically suppose that their positions on morally charged issues of public policy are the fruit of pure reason, while those of their morally conservative opponents reflect an irrational religious faith. George shows that this supposition is wrong on both counts. Challenging liberalism's claim to represent the triumph of reason, George argues that on controversial issues like abortion, euthanasia, same-sex unions, civil rights and liberties, and the place of religion in public life, traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs are rationally superior to secular liberal alternatives.The Clash of Orthodoxies is a profoundly important contribution to our contemporary national conversation about the proper role of religion in politics. The lucid and persuasive prose of Robert George, one of America's most prominent public intellectuals, will shock liberals out of an unwarranted complacency and provide powerful ammunition for embattled defenders of traditional morality.
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has been chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and has served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the President's Council on Bioethics. He was a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds J.D. and M.T.S. degrees from Harvard University and the degrees of D.Phil., B.C.L., D.C.L., and D.Litt. from Oxford University, in addition to twenty-one honorary doctorates. He is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal. Sherif Girgis is an attorney in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Princeton. He has served as law clerk to Judge Thomas Griffith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Justice Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court of the United States. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, a B.Phil. in philosophy from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor's degree in philosophy with highest honors from Princeton. He is a coauthor of Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination (2017) and of several book chapters and academic articles in law and philosophy journals. The views expressed in this book and his other work are his own and not those of his law firm Ryan T. Anderson is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, and he received his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment (2018) and Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom (2015), and he is a coauthor of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense (2012) and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination (2017).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781882926947 |
| ISBN 10 | 1882926943 |
| Title | Clash of Orthodoxies |
| Author | Robert P George |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Regnery Publishing Inc |
| Year published | 2002-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 420 |
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