English and American civil society has spiritual origins, and those origins survive today as roots still necessary for its nourishment. We cannot understand the historical development of civil society without seeing how its current crisis is related to the atrophy of those roots. This seems to imply that, in order for civil society to become revitalized, its spiritual dimension needs to be recuperated.
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Introduction 169 The Origins of Civil Society 172 The Revolutionary Bible 175 The Biblical Foundations of Political Theory 186 Commercial Society 192 The American Religion 199 Conclusion: A "New" Civil Society? 205 Notes 207 References 209
