1999-2000
ARCHIVED EVENTS

Robert P. Kraynak
(Colgate University)
“Christianity and Liberal Democracy: Are They Really Compatible?”

Peter Augustine Lawler
(Berry College)
“The Religious Dimension ofThe American Idea of Liberty”

Alasdair John Milbank
(University of Virginia)
“Radical Orthodoxy: Participation, Political and Metaphysical”

Peter Steinfels
(The New York Times)
Are We Secular and Why Would We Care?

CONFERENCE

“Liberal Democracy and Religion”

Theme

“Liberal Democracy
and Religion”

2000 CONFERENCE:

Liberal Democracy and Religion

Conference organized with and hosted by the Institute of Political Studies, Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal.

Paper: Hillel Fradkin (American Enterprise Institute), "Liberal Democracy and thePolitical Teaching of the Bible"

Response: Jose Ornelas de Carvalho (Portuguese Catholic University)

Papers: Oliver O’Donovan (University of Oxford), Edwin Curley (University of Michigan), "Liberal Democracy and Religion–Philosophical and Theological Perspectives"

Responses: Joshua Mitchell (Georgetown University) and Antonio Matos Ferreira (Portuguese Catholic University)

Papers: Michael McConnell (University of Utah College of Law), Manuel Braga da Cruz (Portuguese Catholic University), "Liberal Democracy and the Relationship Between Church and State"

Responses: Jorge de Miranda (Portuguese Catholic University), Joao C. Rosas (Portuguese Catholic University), Luis Salgado de Matos (University of Lisbon)

Papers: Ferdinand Mount (Times Literary Supplement), Michael Novak American Enterprise Institute), "Liberal Democracy, Secularization, and Civic Education"

Responses: Margaret O’Brien Steinfels (Commonweal Magazine), Peter Steinfels (Georgetown University)

Paper: George Weigel (Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.), "Liberal Democracy and the Papacy of John Paul II"

Responses: Joao Cesar das Neves (Portuguese Catholic University), Vasco Pereira da Silva (Portuguese Catholic University)