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Blog & Mablog

A National Review Contretemps

Blog & Mablog

Canon Press

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to blog and May blog from Doug Wills.com. This audio is brought to you by,

0:09.2

Can't Impress. A National Review

0:23.4

Review, Contrata. Friday, September 13th, 2019 by Douglas Wilson.

0:31.8

Introduction Brian Mattson has done me the honor of engaging with my recent

0:36.8

interactions with the French Amari debate and what I would like to do whether

0:41.6

permitting is engage right back.

0:44.4

He did this over at National Review at the Corner, and you could read all about it there.

0:50.4

The conservative world really does need this frank conversation, and we need to do it without freaking out at each other.

0:57.0

As one friend put it, what should a structurally pluralistic society with competing truth claims look like?

1:05.0

My short answer is that it should look different than that.

1:08.0

And then the real question comes, so how are we going to get there?

1:17.0

Lest there be any undue confusion.

1:22.0

Consider this to be a very simple paragraph length statement about my actual views of the relationship of the Christian faith to the classical liberal order.

1:28.0

Lest there be any more unnecessary confusion on the point.

1:32.0

Here it is. unnecessary confusion on the point.

1:33.0

Here it is.

1:34.5

I do not wish to abandon the classical liberal order

1:37.9

and yet I do object to the very common identification

1:41.3

of secularism and classical liberalism.

1:44.0

I object secularism as a form of political incoherence,

1:48.0

and do not object to classical liberalism.

1:52.0

Classical liberalism need not have all those individuals. to classical liberalism.

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