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O'Donovan Contra Liberalism

August 3rd, 2009 | 2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

In his brilliant defense of Christendom--to which I hope to devote more attention later--Oliver O'Donovan offers what amounts to a drive-by dismantling of what we might call the neo-liberalism of John Rawls and others.  As most evangelicals are either libertarian or think that only secular reasons ought be used to decide matters of public policy, O'donovan's critique merits serious consideration.  I quote it in full:

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.