Faith, Freedom and Modernity: Christianity and Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century History Drawing on principles of contract

Drawing on principles of contract law developed by jurists and theologians from the School of Salamanca

Yet by God’s power the unchanging essence of marriage and the family remains proof

In explaining the West’s dominance

not often addressed by the larger Christian community

Faith, Freedom and Modernity: Christianity and Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century History Drawing on principles of contractBeginning with a careful study of 19th century liberalism, author Jan Klos shows how liberalism understood as political freedom, individualism, and progress is unable to maintain itself without the underpinning of a vigorous cultural commitment to a Christian understanding of man and the morality which flows from it. But if a healthy politics needs the Church, the Church in some respects stands just as much in need of politics. To these twin tasks of