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  • adjective After the introduction of liberalism.

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post- +‎ liberal

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  • They more or less fit the description "postliberal" in that they accept such mainline practices as historical criticism and women's ordination while wanting the church to exhibit more robust dogmatic commitments.

    Going Catholic Argent 2006

  • They sometimes invoke Niebuhr, but they are embattled by a diverse set of antiliberal or postliberal theologies that challenge such efforts by associating political liberalism with the failures of theological liberalism and secular nihilism.

    Matthew Yglesias » Before There Was Early Rawls… 2007

  • The fact that the editor of the UK's leading centre-left political magazine freely accepts that social liberalism is, at best, insufficient or, damningly, responsible for our atomised, broken society, is surely suggestive of the need for a postliberal politics.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • This virtue, not a republican vision, is Machiavelli's lesson for a contemporary UK seeking meaning in a postliberal era.

    Redeeming Machiavelli - republic or patria? Burke's Corner 2009

  • The fact that the editor of the UK's leading centre-left political magazine freely accepts that social liberalism is, at best, insufficient or, damningly, responsible for our atomised, broken society, is surely suggestive of the need for a postliberal politics.

    "Societies cannot survive on liberalism alone" Burke's Corner 2009

  • While Spong is clearly what might be called an "old fashioned modernist", Wright speaks more to the postmodern experience, and although his name is never mentioned, it is clear that the postliberal thought of George Lindbeck and narrative theology is at least part of the framework he is working within p.190.

    What is Christianity? James F. McGrath 2008

  • To some postliberal Christians, it sounds at times like old-fashioned modernism and Liberalism.

    Archive 2008-06-01 James F. McGrath 2008

  • To some postliberal Christians, it sounds at times like old-fashioned modernism and Liberalism.

    Review of Gretta Vosper, With or Without God James F. McGrath 2008

  • Above all, it convincingly shows how Williams has been central to the emergence within Anglicanism in the British Isles of a postliberal theological agenda, replacing the dry rationalism of 1960s liberalism.

    Best Reads of 2008 Burke's Corner 2008

  • Above all, it convincingly shows how Williams has been central to the emergence within Anglicanism in the British Isles of a postliberal theological agenda, replacing the dry rationalism of 1960s liberalism.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Burke's Corner 2008

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