The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It
by Os Guinness
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In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences--especially our religious and ideological differences. The Case for Civility is a proposal for restoring civility in America as a way to foster civility around the world. Influential Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness makes a passionate plea to put an end to the polarization of American politics and culture show more that--rather than creating a public space for real debate--threatens to reverse the very principles our founders set into motion and that have long preserved liberty, diversity, and unity in this country. Guinness takes on the contemporary threat of the excesses of the Religious Right and the secular Left, arguing that we must find a middle ground between privileging one religion over another and attempting to make all public expression of faith illegal. If we do not do this, Guinness contends, Western civilization as we know it will die. Always provocative and deeply insightful, Guinness puts forth a vision of a new, practical "civil and cosmopolitan public square" that speaks not only to America's immediate concerns but to the long-term interests of the republic and the world. show lessTags
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Os Guinness (DPhil, Oxford) is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including A Free People's Suicide and The Global Public Square. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he was the founder of the Trinity Forum and a drafter of The Global Charter of Conscience and An Evangelical Manifesto. He lives near Washington, D.C.
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