Learn about Tocqueville’s greatest gift to America through the Belmont Abbey online course “Tocqueville’s Democracy in America“
America’s founding principles—rooted in faith, virtue, and liberty—are under siege. Secular ideologies threaten religious freedom and the moral foundation of our republic.
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America reminds us of our country’s founding principles. His work also provides insight into how we can improve our society by uniting our Christian beliefs and our love of liberty.
At Belmont Abbey College, we are answering the contemporary crisis with a bold vision to restore our culture, defend our freedoms, and form principled leaders who will save our country while faithfully serving the Church. For nearly 150 years, Belmont Abbey has been a cornerstone of Catholic liberal arts education, shaping souls and minds to live virtuously and lead courageously by offering the wisdom of our Western heritage through great thinkers like Alexis de Tocqueville.
With nearly 50 academic programs, a 95% medical school acceptance rate, and recognition by The Cardinal Newman Society for our fidelity to Catholic teaching, we are forming the next generation to:
- Defend religious liberty and America’s founding principles.
- Restore faith and virtue in the public square.
- Transform our culture for the glory of God.
What does Alexis de Tocqueville have to teach us?
Just 55 years after America’s revolution, when the young Tocqueville arrived, our growing country was still trying to find the balance between the democratic principles of liberty and the pursuit of happiness and our Christian values of faithfulness and unity. Tocqueville came to America to study our prison system, but he left with something far more valuable: a deep insight into our future as a country.
His thoughts and findings are still valuable now.
In this four-part video course, Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, taught by Belmont Abbey’s Provost, Dr. Joseph Wysocki, you will learn:
- Who Alexis de Tocqueville was and why his work is relevant today
- What role of religion in American politics
- How Christian principles can be the antidote to the harmful effects democracy has had on our souls
- Why the majority has so much power, and the danger that power presents
- What you can do in your life to combat the effects of restlessness and materialism
- And much, much more…
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