Ross Douthat
Autor/a de Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
Sobre l'autor
Ross Douthat is a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page. He is the author of To Change the Church, Bad Religion, and Privilege, and coauthor of Grand New Party. He is the film critic for National Review, and he cohosts the New York Times's, weekly op-ed podcast The Argument. He lives in New mostra'n més Haven with his wife and four children. mostra'n menys
Obres de Ross Douthat
Obres associades
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (1953) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 256 exemplars
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books (2012) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Douthat, Ross
- Nom oficial
- Douthat, Ross Gregory
- Data de naixement
- 1979-11-28
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Washington, DC, USA - Educació
- Harvard University
- Professions
- columnist
film critic
blogger
author - Relacions
- Douthat, Charles (father)
- Organitzacions
- The Atlantic Monthly
National Review
The New York Times
Membres
Converses
Douthat: The Crisis of Contemporary Catholicism a Catholic Tradition (juny 2016)
Bad Religion a Let's Talk Religion (maig 2012)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 31
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 1,763
- Popularitat
- #14,601
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 47
- ISBN
- 88
- Llengües
- 2
Thus Douthat becomes your traditional conservative American scold, with no explanation for why countries far more secular and non-religiously orthodox than America (one of them just the other side of our northern border!) nevertheless have healthier societies.
It would be a different book if Douthat made his case for orthodoxy on theological grounds, arguing that this debate mattered for the purpose of saving human souls or creating the Kingdom of God or accurately telling homosexuals that God wants them to be celibate (well, that's his view). But he doesn't make those arguments. He makes his case on the grounds that orthodoxy was responsible for a healthy and prosperous American society, and its decline responsible for an unhealthy American society, thus making a restored religious orthodoxy equally important to atheists as to Christian believers. This, my friends, is ridiculous.
Douthat also, in his section bemoaning the "accommodation" of mainstream churches to modern heresy, gives a disapproving shout-out to Little Rock's own Peggy Bosmyer, the first female Episcopal priest in the South. Alas he misspells her name "Boysmer". That's disappointing.… (més)