Good News for Common Goods

"The title of this book contains a number of deceptively familiar terms whose precise meanings, in isolation and relation to one another, map the contours of its content and argument. "Good news," "common goods," "multicultural evangelicalism," and "ethical democracy" all have particular meanings that speak to important concepts and prior work-on democracy, multiculturalism, evangelicalism, and the common good-and to the different ways this book aims to challenge and build on relevant debates and research in sociology, theology and religion, social and political philosophy, and democratic theory. I discuss these and other key concepts (social reflexivity and reflexive evangelicalism among them) and their particular usage in this book"--