David Hollenbach > Quotes

“Christian faith entails care and respect for all persons, and respect for their dignity means listening to their interpretations of the human good. Further, Christian love calls for the building of the bonds of solidarity among all persons, and solidarity requires efforts to understand those who are different, to learn from them, and to contribute to their understanding of good life as well.”
― David Hollenbach, The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics

“Jeffrey K. Hadden (University of Virginia) does not reject the concept of secularization entirely but instead proposes to give it a more restricted meaning: the movement from a religiously legitimated state to a secularly legitimated state. This definision of secularization does not necessarily imply a decline of religious belief or behavior. Rather, it focuses attention on the 'legal and quasi-legal institutional relationships between religion and regime.”
― David Hollenbach, The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics

“Occassionally, such arguments are reinforced by references to the contemporary Islamic world and to nations where attempts have been made to base both constitutional and penal law on the Shari'ah. These historical and contemporary examples lead to considerable fear of what are seen as the likely results of public, political activity by religious communities.”
― David Hollenbach, The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics

“Epistemological humility embodies this double sense of wonder. This makes such humility fundamentally different from skepticism. The inquirer who possess this virtue does not simply affirm that persons and cultures are different from one another and leave the matter at that. Rather, epistemological humility is a cognitive stance that expects grwoth in knowledge to occur when one pays attention to, and forms the appropriate kinds of relationships with, others."

"In social inquiry, therefore, cognitive humility enables the inquirer to see cultural differences as expressions of different ways of being human.”
― David Hollenbach, The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics