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Response to Our Critics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Extract

We are grateful that the editors secured three thoughtful though critical responses to our essay. Such responses perform a service by calling to our attention matters we have insufficiently considered, pushing us to greater clarity, and perhaps revealing to us errors that we have overlooked.

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Research Article
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2000

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1 “Of all the traditional religious stances, it is probably Roman Catholicism that has the hardest time at H[arvard] D[ivinity] S[chool]. Anti-Catholicism is still the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals. Certain positions that Catholicism regards as crucial to its vision of the just society cannot be easily advocated in the Divinity School. You try to take a pro-life position there, boy, you're dead. A Catholic has to be either dissident or silent on issues like these—or astonishingly courageous.” Levenson, Jon D., List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Harvard Magazine, 0910 1999, p. 61.Google Scholar

2 Novak asserts parenthetically that “regime” is “an inappropriate name for humankind's greatest experiment in self-government.” We use the term regime (politeia) nonpejoratively, as did Plato and Aristotle.