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God’s Name in Vain (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)

Despite Stephen Carter’s past record of presenting important, more liberal-minded studies on the tensions between religion and politics, God’s Name in Vain is a rather convoluted exploration of Carter’s conservative change of heart regarding Christianity’s dealings with America’s doctrine on the separation of church and state. Carter, a William Nelson Cromwell professor of law at Yale University, clearly wants readers to accept his overall perspective that conservative Christians are not the threat to American democracy that liberal thinkers fear. However, his tone and...

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