Table of Contents

Foreword Thomas Griffith; Introduction Daniel N. Robinson; 1. Two concepts of liberty Robert P. George; 2. Religious liberty: the first freedom Daniel N. Robinson; 3. The creation and reconstruction of the First Amendment Akhil Reed Amar; 4. Recasting the argument for religious freedom Hadley Arkes; 5. Let us pray: Greece v. Galloway Gerard V. Bradley; 6. What are we really arguing about when we argue about the freedom of the church? Michael P. Moreland; 7. Our schizophrenic attitude towards corporate conscience Brett G. Scharffs; 8. Religious freedom in the world today Roger Scruton; 9. The first of all freedoms is liberty of conscience Michael Novak.

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These essays focus on the intellectual and philosophical roots of religious liberty and the confrontations with the authority of secular law.

About the Author

Daniel N. Robinson is Fellow of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has published in a wide variety of subjects, including moral philosophy, the philosophy of psychology, legal philosophy, the philosophy of the mind, intellectual history, legal history, and the history of psychology. He is a Senior Fellow of Brigham Young University's Wheatley Institution. In 2011 he received the Gittler Award from the American Psychological Association for significant contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychology. Richard N. Williams is Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University, Utah. Most recently, he has co-edited (with Daniel N. Robinson) The American Founding: Its Intellectual and Moral Framework (2012) and Scientism: The New Orthodoxy (2016). He has published four other co-authored or co-edited books and more than seventy professional papers on a variety of topics dealing with psychology and issues of human agency, morality, and religion.

Reviews

'The contributors to this volume are prolific and distinguished scholars … I think the volume would be of particular value to non-specialists or to undergraduates seeking exposure to the work of these distinguished scholars.' Richard S. Myers, Journal of Church and State