Exactly right. But do you think it is possible to have a "democratic faith" along with an integral religous faith, if it were possible that the democratic faith could be strictly defined and kept at the level of the finite peace of the temporal order? or will this democratic faith always supplant religous faith? Maritain thought it did not have to supplant it. I am trying to figure out if there is any possibility that Maritain was right, that is, that a practical consensus which abstracts from theoretical foundations (on the public level) could exist along side of deep, comprehensive worldviews which ground this consensus (on the private level). Something between Rawls and the confessional state, perhaps?
Exactly right. But do you
Exactly right. But do you think it is possible to have a "democratic faith" along with an integral religous faith, if it were possible that the democratic faith could be strictly defined and kept at the level of the finite peace of the temporal order? or will this democratic faith always supplant religous faith? Maritain thought it did not have to supplant it. I am trying to figure out if there is any possibility that Maritain was right, that is, that a practical consensus which abstracts from theoretical foundations (on the public level) could exist along side of deep, comprehensive worldviews which ground this consensus (on the private level). Something between Rawls and the confessional state, perhaps?
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