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Ep 46: Christianity and Saving Democracy with Jonathan Rauch
Micah Redding, Jonathan Rauch
Posted on 2025-04-07 22:00:00
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?
Christian Transhumanist Podcast
Micah Redding, Jonathan Rauch
2025-04-07 22:00:00
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- Science Mike McHargue
- David Deutsch
- Aubrey de Grey
- Frank Tipler
- Robin Hanson
- Robert Wright
- James Hughes
- Steve Fuller
- Liz Parrish
- Thomas Jay Oord
- Greg Boyd
- Philip Clayton
- Adam Ericksen
- Christian Piatt
- Paul Wallace
- Derek Flood
- Katharine Hayhoe
- Christopher Benek
- Robert Walden Kurtz
- Calvin Mercer
- Peter Enns
- Shannon Vyff
- Ron Cole-Turner
- Meghan O'Gieblyn
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The Christian Transhumanist Podcast is an editorially independent production of Micah Redding, provided here as a community resource on behalf of the CTA.