Talking God in public debate

A heads-up for a useful report from Theos. It's Jonathan Chaplin's Talking God , The legitimacy of Religious Public Reasoning. TalkingGod1.pdf (application/pdf Object) It's particularly useful to those thinking about how secularity and religion co-exist in public space. I recognise useful stuff from the point of being a chaplain in HE and FE as well as the obvious relevance to political debate. At the launch event, the author said something really helpful which encapsulated something I'd been saying for years but never yet found a satisfying way to say.

The majority of commentators appear to think it is inappropriate for religious believers to appeal to their own faith commitments in public debate. The reality is that secular commentators have their own faith commitments. It is just as reasonable for public reasoning to be religious as 'secular'. The challenge for all parties is to ensure that their arguments enrich political debate.

Quite so.