Liberty rethinking an imperiled ideal - Tinder, Glenn (Eerdmans, 2007)
Includes index
Liberty, faith, and reason -- Liberty : the ideal and the reality -- The issue of faith and reason -- Rational universalism -- Christian universalism -- Christianity as an inquiring faith -- The present essay -- Liberty and human evil -- The Christian view of human nature -- Sin as seen by reason -- The naked human soul -- The ordeal of liberty -- Flight from freedom -- Masses and minorities -- Why liberty? -- Choice and value -- The value of truth -- Individual, society, community -- Righteousness and receptivity -- Justification and the life of liberty -- Personalism -- The personalist idea -- Reason, faith, and persons -- The question of personal dignity -- Reason, faith, and personal dignity -- The idea of destiny -- The flawed society -- Liberty and the good society -- Liberty against itself -- Liberty and equality -- The dangerous passion for purity -- The lure of withdrawal -- The liberal stance -- Standing alone -- Standing together -- Solitude and private property --
Liberty and character -- Dialogue -- The dialogic ideal -- Reason and dialogue -- Faith and dialogue -- The mystery of being -- The mystery of personality -- Politics and the dialogic ideal -- Tolerance -- The issue of tolerance -- Tolerance and reason -- Tolerance and faith -- The burden of tolerance -- Universality : the public realm -- Liberal universality -- The public realm -- Evanescent elites and occasional authorities -- Church, culture, and politics -- Church and state -- Universality : history -- The question of historical meaning -- History and destiny -- Taking part in history -- The consummate community -- Character and the prophetic stance -- Limits on liberty -- The spirit and the letter of liberty -- The spirit of liberty and education -- The fantasy of limitless liberty -- Liberty and coercion : the issue -- Coercion and personal dignity -- The rule of universality -- The rule of liberality -- The rule of proportionality -- The rule of enforceability --
Society, community, and coercion -- Liberation : action and suffering -- Liberty and liberation -- Liberty and suffering -- The unsheltered society -- Character as the capacity for waiting -- Liberty and the last things -- Liberty, righteousness, and the end of history -- "God is light" -- "Ecce homo" -- Liberty and hope