Wheatley Institute Director writes a Deseret News perspective article on how Jonathan Rauch underscored ‘civic theology’ of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the University of Virginia.
Wheatley Institute Director, Paul Edwards, provides key takeaways from Jonathan Rauch at University of Virginia.
One of America’s leading public intellectuals, a self-described atheistic Jewish gay man, is neither eager to see the flight from Christian churches, nor is he buying an all-too-convenient “society is to blame” explanation for this phenomenon. In a tour de force of intellectual courage and candor, senior Brookings Institution fellow Jonathan Rauch delivered three stunning lectures late last month at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Rauch warned that the deterioration of American Christianity threatens America’s pluralistic democracy. He also warned that our democracy is threatened by the reactive response of some American Christian thought leaders who blame our liberal democracy for the demise of their own church communities.