 (Maritain does not discuss in any detail how his model ‘Christian’ polity might be realised, but suggests that it is the only one that takes account of each person’s spiritual worth and that recognises the importance of providing the means to foster one’s growth as a person. It recognises differences of religious conscience and is, in this way, fundamentally pluralistic. Such a polity, Maritain believed, would exhibit not just tolerance, but friendship and fellowship [see D’Souza 2011, Zunic 2005], and would thereby have social cohesion. Whether it would indeed be able to accommodate plurality while remaining a unified community has, however, been a subject of some debate [Armour 2005].)