Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Liberal introduction: Jesus and Abraham -- part 1. Liberalism and agape. Love and Mr. Lincoln -- The image of God and the soul of humanity: reflections on dignity, sanctity, and democracy -- The return of the prodigal?: liberal theory and religious pluralism -- part 2. Replies to contemporary liberals and antiliberals. To Bedlam and partway back: John Rawls and Christian justice -- A house divided, again: Dworkin and Singer on sanctity and dignity -- The theory and practice of discomfort: Richard Rorty and liberal patriotism -- Defending democracy without traducing tradition: Jeffrey Stout's "pragmatic vision" -- The cross and democratic politics: agape, self-sacrifice, and human rights -- part 3. Love, law, and modern moral issues. Euthanasia and capital punishment: Christianity and the right to death -- Both Shylock and Oedipus: why many accounts of Christian complicity in the Holocaust are only half right -- Keeping marriage sacred: the Christian case for gay and lesbian wedlock -- Suffering the suffering children: Christianity and the rights and wrongs of adoption -- Prophetic conclusion: Martin Luther King Jr.

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