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2009 Spring Humanities Symposium: Faith In The Public Square, Messiah College
2009 Spring Humanities Symposium: Faith In The Public Square, Messiah College
Humanities Symposium
Keynote Address: Dr. Alan Wolfe
February 23-28, 2009
How do our cherished values find public expression? Should religion be treated as belonging to the domain of public or private? What is the role of religion within a secular polity? While such questions point to the importance of faith in public life, they need not be confined to the domain of religion. We also publicly express our faith in everything from stock markets to abstract ideals like love, justice, equality, and humanity. It is all too clear that human faith, both in its religious and non-religious manifestations, finds public expression with …