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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ideology, Religion and Idolatry | |
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| Politics and Ideas | |
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| History and Definitions | |
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| Ideology in Christian Perspective | |
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| Preconditions for the Rise of Ideologies | |
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| Ideology as Religious: Toward a Definition | |
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| The Classification of Ideologies: Left and Right | |
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| Discerning the Spirits in the Ideologies | |
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| Liberalism: The Sovereignty of the Individual | |
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| The Meanings of Liberalism | |
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| The Liberal Creed | |
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| Late Liberalism and the Expansion of the State | |
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| The Right and the Good: Subsidizing Choices | |
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| The Spiritually Vacant State: The Privatization of Ultimate Belief | |
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| Sin and Salvation in Liberalism | |
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| Conservatism: History as Source of Norms | |
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| Babies and Bathwater: The Conservative Creed | |
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| The Grass Is Greener on Our Side | |
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| Which Traditions and When? | |
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| Conservatism and Christianity | |
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| Conservatism and the State | |
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| Nationalism: The Nation Deified | |
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| A Creed for a Century | |
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| Civic and Ethnic Nationalisms: State Versus Tribe | |
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| The Nationalist View of the State | |
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| Patriotic Loyalty: A Modest Devotion | |
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| Christians and Nationalism | |
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| Democracy: Vox Populi Vox Dei | |
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| Structure and Creed | |
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| From Liberalism to Democracy | |
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| The Majoritarian and Totalitarian Temptations | |
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| Democratization Without Limits | |
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| Creed and Structure Revisited: Direct Versus Representative Democracy | |
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| Representation: Followership or Leadership? | |
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| Democracy and Justice: A Final Assessment | |
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| Socialism: Common Ownership as Salvific | |
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| A World of Socialisms | |
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| A Transformative Vision | |
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| From Democracy to Socialism | |
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| Common Ownership and Socialist Ideology | |
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| Means and Ends: Equality and How to Get There | |
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| The Marxian Vision and Marxism | |
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| Fair Distribution of Economic Resources | |
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| Transcending the Ideologies: Affirming Societal Pluriformity | |
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| A Biblical Christian Response | |
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| A Christian Worldview: Creation, Fall and Redemption | |
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| Creation Order: Misconceptions Dispelled | |
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| Discerning the Spirits: Pluralisms and Pluriformity | |
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| Toward a Nonideological Alternative: Two Historic Christian Approaches | |
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| The Role of Catholic Social Teachings | |
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| The Principle of Subsidiarity: Affirming Civil Society | |
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| The Reformation: Calvin and Althusius | |
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| Developments in the Netherlands: Groen and Kuyper | |
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| Sovereignty in Its Own Sphere: A Nonhierarchical Affirmation of Civil Society | |
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| Dooyeweerd's Contribution | |
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| The State and Its Task: Doing Justice in God's World | |
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| Justice and Differentiated Responsibility | |
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| Justice and the State | |
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| Epilogue: Toward the Future | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |