Review
"This is a rich book that defies a simple summary. It is worth reading by itself or, one hopes, as a propaedeutic to the two remaining volumes in this series."--
Journal of Church and State
Product Description
This is an ambitious and challenging restatement of traditional political philosophy. The author is concerned with the nature of political society, and especially with arguments that have been used to support a `liberal modernist' view of the state and of our political obligations. He argues that liberal modernism has been a destructive influence in both religion and our understanding of community life, and that to establish a proper social order we must rediscover the order represented by family loyalty and a respect for tradition. This is the first of three volumes of `Limits and Renewals', based on the Cambridge 1986-7 Stanton Lectures in the Philosophy of Religion.