Ep 46: Christianity and Saving Democracy with Jonathan Rauch
Micah Redding interviews Jonathan Rauch on Christianity, the role of religion in liberalism, and why Christians should embrace Jesus to save democracy.
Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington; a contributing writer of the Atlantic; and the author of numerous books on public policy, culture, and government. His latest book is "Cross Purposes: Christianity's broken bargain with democracy".
- Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
Talking points:
- The rapid decline of both Mainline and Evangelical Christianity in America
- The corresponding rise of illiberalism, authoritarianism, polarization, and dangerous pseudo-religions
- The symbiosis between Liberal Democracy and Christianity
- Why even secular society needs Christians
- The Christian case for Liberal Democracy
- The network epistemology of Karl Popper and Charles Sanders Peirce; and how that touches on faith and science
- Institutions as the infrastructure of knowledge, and the foundation of technology
- How can Christians help save democracy?