The New Orthodoxy: Canada’s Emerging “Civil Religion”

This book examines the founding non-sectarian

approach to Canadian statecraft that accommodated religious and cultural

diversity. The 1960’s promise of political liberalism embraced in Canada was to

provide a philosophy of government that facilitates the individual's vision and

pursuit of the good life. Decades later, the promotion of individual autonomy

and fraternity by governments and the courts threatens to undermine the very

freedom governments claim to promote and protect. Bruce J. Clemenger presents a

biblically-based model of public and political engagement and a defense of

religious freedom, especially the freedom to disagree, in an increasingly

secularist state. A timely work.