Readers in the D.C. area may be interested in this talk tomorrow. (Allan Carlson is one of our contributing editors):
The Family Research Council cordially invites you to a Witherspoon Lecture entitled, "Europe and the Christian Democracy Movement: A Once and Future Hope?" featuring Allan C. Carlson, Distinguished Fellow for Family Policy Studies, Family Research Council, and President of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society.
Event Synopsis:
The future of Europe and European Democracy is clouded. Challenges confronting the continent include conflicting political visions, the role of the European Union, plummeting birth rates and the corresponding threat of population implosion, and accelerated non-European immigration. While in many ways novel, these challenges themselves reflect Europe's failure to answer adequately the social and political questions raised by modernity.
In this lecture, Allan Carlson examines the emergence of the European Christian democratic movement in the 19th-Century as a response to modernity. He considers its expression as a Catholic social justice movement, its failure to halt the triumph of fascism in the early 20th Century, and the vital role it played in rebuilding Europe--politically and morally-- after World War II. He will describe the movement's distinctively Christian worldview, and its articulation of an authentic family policy. Carlson explores Europe's 'values revolution' of the 1960s and the devolution of Christian Democracy in Germany, Italy, Holland, and France from a faith- driven effort to renew Christendom into broad mass parties of the Center-Right. He will also describe more recent expressions of Christian Democracy in unexpected places, including Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Poland, and the Baltic States. Carlson's remarks conclude with lessons from the Christian Democracy experiment for American politics and policy-making.
Event Venue:
Family Research Council
801 G St. NW
Washington, D.C.
Other Event Details:
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
11:00 a.m.
Complimentary Lunch Served
Please R.S.V.P. using the online registration form if you plan to attend.
Phone: 202/393-2100
Email: [email protected]
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