A winding excursion through the uniquely Christian foundations underlying our modern concept of liberalism.
ROBERT BAINES, president and CEO, NATO Association of Canada
The Crisis of Liberalism is an astonishing intellectual tour de force and, some might suggest, also an act of mega-chutzpah, as the author takes on what generations of political theorists had assumed was a settled question.
PETER L. BIRO, senior fellow of Massey College
An elegant and lucid account of the Christian origins of liberalism, its baneful revolt against those origins, and its possible recovery.
HOWARD ANGLIN, constitutional lawyer
A much welcome and illuminating intervention in a long-running debate about our present disarray. Rather than rehearsing familiar arguments about institutions, norms, or polarisation, Michael R. J. Bonner probes liberalism’s forgotten moral and theological foundations, and the consequences of losing sight of them.
LOLA SALEM, fellow at the University of Oxford
Michael Bonner’s latest book, The Crisis of Liberalism, could be subtitled “From Homer to Homer (Simpson),” as it is typical of both the range of Bonner’s erudition and the light touch with which he wields it that the two great Homers of Western civilisation bookend this lively intellectual tour-de-force.
Howard Anglin, The Hub
Bonner's longue durée analysis is meticulously documented, with a mastery of the source material, and presented in a thoroughly accessible style. Moreover, his conclusions are self-evident for those with eyes to truly see. ... One would be hard-pressed to find a more insightful and original historical overview of the ancient Christian sources of contemporary liberal thought than Bonner's text.
Jozef Andrew Kosc, Providence Magazine