{"id":3479,"date":"2012-01-23T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2012-01-23T10:54:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:54:13","slug":"article-by-oxbridge-alumnus-david-theroux-secular-theocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/blog\/article-by-oxbridge-alumnus-david-theroux-secular-theocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Article by Oxbridge Alumnus David Theroux – “Secular Theocracy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Theroux, President of the Independent Institute and an alumnus of our 2011 C.S. Lewis Summer Institute (“Oxbridge 2011”), recently posted the second part of his article “Secular Theocracy:
\nThe Foundations and Folly of Modern Tyranny<\/a>.” In it, he discusses issues of statism, religion and the public square, and secularism. Special mention is made of the views of authors C.S. Lewis, Rodney Stark, and William Cavanaugh.\u00a0 You can view the article at the Independent Institute’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And if you didn’t catch it, here is David’s article from August 2011 on “C. S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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