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Religious Communitarianism, Covenants, and Liberal Theory: On the Political Thought of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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Lord Rabbi Sacks was a major religious Jewish figure. In this article, we examine his version of a covenant-based communitarianism. We begin with exploring Sacks’ social communitarian view, and his support of a covenant-based politics. We then turn to evaluate Sacks’ covenant-based view, and argue that while his social communitarian view is valuable and important, his covenant-based political view faces the same challenges that troubled communitarian views, namely the fact of religious, value, and ethnic plurality. One possible way forward is via a federalist system, in which covenants are localized.

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  • Nahshon Perez, 2023. "Religious Communitarianism, Covenants, and Liberal Theory: On the Political Thought of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks," The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(2), pages 44-56, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rfiaxx:v:21:y:2023:i:2:p:44-56
    DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2023.2200283
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