Jun 22, 2012 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

In Search of the City on a Hill

By Richard Gamble|2014-03-24T11:34:46-05:00June 22nd, 2012|Categories: Books|Tags: Richard Gamble|

[An excerpt from the In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth.] In popular culture, the phrase “city on a hill” has become so closely identified with Ronald Reagan and before him with John Winthrop that even Christians can forget that the words originated not with a founder [...]

Rights in Islam

By Stratford Caldecott|2016-02-14T16:01:08-06:00June 22nd, 2012|Categories: Communio, Islam, Rights, Stratford Caldecott|

In its modern sense, the concept of human rights could be said to be alien to the Islamic tradition. That is because the modern doctrine of rights is an invention of the European Enlightenment. It was an attempt to base the humane social order on reason rather than revelation. Unfortunately the secular foundations of the [...]