Religious Communitarianism, Covenants, and Liberal Theory: On the Political Thought of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Lord Rabbi Sacks was a major religious Jewish figure. In this article, we examine his version of covenant-based communitarianism. We begin with exploring Sacks’ social communitarian view, and support politics. then turn to evaluate argue that while view is valuable important, political faces the same challenges troubled views, namely fact religious, value, ethnic plurality. One possible way forward via federalist system, in which covenants are localized.