Richard Fox, in The Center Magazine, (Sept.-Oct. 1987), PO. Box 4068, Santa Bar-bara, Calif. 93140.
American liberahsm, argues Fox, a historian at Reed College, has tradition- ally found allies among such "celebrated religious spokesmen" as Martin Luther King, Jr. But in the 1980s, while leaders in other professions (ac- tors, psychologists, and even astronomers) support the liberal agenda, there is no theologian "to link liberal politics to spiritual meaning or tran- scendent purpose."
Why...