Christianity Did Not Cause Liberalism: A Comment on Klein Out of Siedentop
Professor Daniel Klein and Peter J Olsson say – depending in good part on a book by a philosopher specialized on modern political thought, Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism – that Christianity led to liberalism. I say, on the contrary, that liberalism was an invention of 18th century radicals like Voltaire and Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft, themselves barely Christian, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey writes in a comment to the interview.