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POLITICS,

THEOLOGY

AND HISTORY

RAYMOND PLANT

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Politics, Theology and History is a major new book by a

prominent academic and an active politician. It ranges

widely across the disciplines of theology, political theory

and philosophy and poses acute questions about the basic

moral foundations of liberal societies.

Lord Plant focuses on the role that religious belief can

and ought to play in argument about public policy in a

pluralistic society. He examines the potential political

implications of Christian belief and the ways in which it

may be deployed in political debate. The book is a

contribution to the modern debate about the moral

pluralism of western liberal societies, discussing the place

of religious belief in the formation of policy and asking

what sorts of issues in modern society might be the

legitimate objects of a Christian social and political

concern.

Raymond Plant has written an important study of the

relationship between religion and politics which will be of

value to students, academics, politicians, church profes-

sionals, policy makers and all concerned with the moral

fabric of contemporary life.

raymond plant is Professor of European Political

Thought at the University of Southampton and a Member

of the House of Lords. He was a Home affairs spokes-

person for the Labour Party from 1992 to 1996, and

Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, from 1994 to

2000. Lord Plant's main publications are Social and Moral

Theory in Casework (1970), Community and Ideology: An Essay in

Applied Moral Philosophy (1974), Hegel (1974), Political Phil-

osophy and Social Welfare (with H. Lesser and P. Taylor-

Gooby, 1979), Philosophy, Politics and Citizenship (with

A. Vincent, 1983), Hegel: Second Edition (1983) and Modern

Political Thought (1994).

POLITICS, THEOLOGY

AND HISTORY

RAYMOND PLANT

University of Southampton

Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford

PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (VIRTUAL PUBLISHING)

FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRP

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http://www.cambridge.org

First published in printed format 2001

A catalogue record for the original printed book is available

from the British Library and from the Library of Congress

Original ISBN 0 521 43320 7 hardback

Original ISBN 0 521 43881 0 paperback

ISBN 0 511 01320 5 virtual (netLibrary Edition)

We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you.

2 Chronicles 20.12.

World remains World. But God is God

Karl Barth, Kriegszeit und Gottesreich

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