Beyond Ideologies

We live in an era when seemingly every human issue is viewed through an ideological lens. Utopic in flavour and aim, airtight in answers, and more attune to systems of thought and social order than respectful of the irreducible complexity of human beings, ideologies are often unhelpful and perniciously detached from reality. Yet are we inevitably situated in a stream of assumptions we’ve inherited about human flourishing and the good society, or can we forge a healthier, more humane path? This issue seeks to encourage you, our readers, to reimagine with us a new stream that cuts a little closer to the canon of Christian social thought—a canon that has always been ideologically heterodox, personalist, and alive.