This article argues that the kind of religious establishment that currently obtains in England is sufficiently liberal in the sense that it accommodates rights to religious freedom and is compatible with political equality. What is more, insofar as it expresses a Christian anthropology, established Anglicanism can generate the ‘thick’ set of virtues necessary to make citizens capable of respecting liberal rights. In the course of defending its thesis, the argument disputes John Rawls’s description of the ‘overlapping consensus’ as one that stands free of its supporting comprehensive doctrines; and it reads Martha Nussbaum as, ironically, confirming that an established orthodoxy of some sort is inevitable.

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英国国教机构：它是如何自由的？

本文认为，目前在英国获得的那种宗教机构在容纳宗教自由权利并与政治平等相容的意义上是足够自由的。更重要的是，就其表达基督教人类学而言，既定的英国国教可以产生一系列必要的“厚重”美德，使公民能够尊重自由权利。在为其论点辩护的过程中，该论点驳斥了约翰·罗尔斯 (John Rawls) 将“重叠共识”描述为脱离其支持性综合学说的观点；讽刺的是，玛莎·努斯鲍姆（Martha Nussbaum）认为，某种既定的正统观念是不可避免的。