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Seeking “Common Ground”: A Secular Statement, Bruce Ledewitz

Bruce Ledewitz

Seeking “Common Ground”: A Secular Statement Bruce Ledewitz “If common ground can be defined which permits once conflicting faiths to express the shared conviction that there is an ethic and a morality which transcend human invention, the sense of community and purpose sought by all decent societies might be advanced.” Religion has its uniqueness, which is feared in the Establishment Clause and protected in the Free Exercise Clause. But religion is also part of a larger tradition that transcends religion and includes much of philosophy and political theory. That tradition was characterized by C.S. Lewis as the “doctrine of objective …