'Kraynak has written a profound, moving, wonderfully clear, instructive, and genuinely controversial book. He shows how the Christian view of human beings might provide what we most need to curb the excesses of the indiscriminate reliance on rights of our time. Constitutionalism really is possible without liberalism because we really are citizens of two cities, with duties to both. Kraynak has conviced me that government is properly limited not by our personal sovereignty or autonomy but by what we, as spiritual beings, owe God.
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