Man · Religion · State: American Public Administration, Puritanism and Martin Luther's 95 Theses

This book synthesizes Moon-Young Lee’s writings on public administration from his unique perspectives of man, religion and state. As he writes, “man, religion, and state are precious entities which reveal their true character when they areexchanged with the death of a human being. A slave can be free only when he risks his life, religion can secure the status of true religion only when it rebels against the persecution of ecclesiastical authority, and the state can be born as a true democratic state only when there is a reward for the blood of the people.”In this book, Lee explores bases of good public administration in the Western civilization, especially Luther’s Reformation, puritanism and the founding of America as puritan state.This book, as his other books do, deeply reflects his personal experiences as intellectual, dissident and scholar of public administration under the authoritarian governments and demonstrates his life-long search for good public administration. Read more