More from Stuntz on Religion and the Academy

Havard Law Professor William Stuntz follows up, here, to an earlier essay, "Faculty Clubs and Church Pews."  The new essay, "The Academic Left and the Christian Right," fleshes out this statement:

I've come to a conclusion: The situation is even better than I'd thought. The intellectual left and the religious right not only could come together. Given the right kind of political leadership, they will.

 

So what would this coming-together look like? What ideological territory, what issue space, can secular academics and evangelical Christians both occupy?

He concludes:  "Academics dream for a living -- we think about ways the world might change, and how the change could happen. And evangelicals believe we live in a world afflicted by sin and filled with wrongs that need righting. I bet both groups would welcome a politics that aimed to right some of those wrongs. I know I would."

Rick