A recent interview with thoughtful post-liberal thinker Adrian Pabst - published on the Together for the Common Good site - provides an interesting example of the limitations and contradictions of postliberal thought. The interview is significantly entitled ' How Christian is Postliberalism? '. This should alert us to the importance of theological and ecclesial consideration of postliberalism because it is indeed being presented as a renewal of a Christian tradition of political thought. What is perhaps most striking about the interview is Pabst's admission that all is not well within postliberalism. His insistence that "the post-liberal alternative is emphatically not authoritarian populism" and the reference to "some self-styled post-liberals" immediately alert us to this. He then distances himself from those postliberals in the United Kingdom and the United States who have explicitly presented the governments of Poland and Hungary as expressions...
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