Ned O'Gorman

The Religious Origins of Democratic Pluralism

History & Biography

“Plurality--of perspectives, principles, and persons--is a fact, not an option. So is the intense religiosity of millions amidst a 'secular age.' Safstrom's measured and finely written study of Waldenstrom not only vindicates a largely forgotten thinker, preacher, and politician, but makes one of the best cases I have read for pluralism as an ethic fit for the facts of plurality, and Christianity as a basis for democracy.”