Common Sense Christianity
Author: C. Randolph Ross
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 288
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Author: C. Randolph Ross
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gerald Mann
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780964727205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2009-06-09
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0375891013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen push comes to shove, two Kentucky girls find strength in each other. Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs, two girls from different parts of Kentucky, are participating in the first seventh-grade student exchange program between their schools. The girls will stay at each other’s homes, attend school together, and record their experience in their journals. Catherine and her family have a beautiful home with plenty of space. Since Ivy June’s house is crowded, she lives with her grandparents. Her Pappaw works in the coal mines supporting four generations of kinfolk. Ivy June can’t wait until he leaves that mine forever and retires. As the girls get closer, they discover they’re more alike than different, especially when they face the terror of not knowing what’s happening to those they love most.
Author: Julie Murphy
Publisher: Thorndike Striving Reader
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781432888978
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Author: Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0674057813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommon sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.
Author: Robert Christian
Publisher: Graphic Publishers
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9780892790784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Novak
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1594034117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe leaders of the American Revolution, unlike the leaders of the French revolution, did not set out to erase religion. Indeed, the very first act of the Continental Congress was to pray to Divine Providence in the face of the British bombardment of Boston. In establishing a new model of self-government, the Founders believed that they were not only acting according to reason and common sense, but also obeying a religious duty. Benjamin Franklin proposed as their motto: “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” In telling the story of the forgotten—if not deliberately ignored—role of faith in America’s beginnings, Michael Novak probes the innermost religious conviction of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and other of our Founders. He shows that while the American eagle could not have taken flight without the empirical turn of mind embodied in John Locke’s teaching on the ends of government and the consent of the governed, the men who made America also believed that liberty depends as much on faith as on reason. In the course of his illustrious career, Michael Novak has written several prize-winning books on theology and philosophy. In On Two Wings he has created a profound mediation on American history, and on human nature and destiny as well.
Author: Dale Ahlquist
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1586171399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDale Ahlquist, the President of the American Chesterton Society, and author of G. K. Chesterton -The Apostle of Common Sense, presents a book of wonderful insights on how to look at the whole world through the eyes of Chesterton. Since, as he says, Chesterton wrote about everything, there is an ocean of his material to benefit from GKC's insights on a kaleidoscope of many important topics. Chesterton wrote a hundred books on a variety of themes, thousands of essays for London newspapers, penned epic poetry, delighted in detective fiction, drew illustrations, and made everyone laugh by his keen humor. Everyone who knew Chesterton loved him, even those he debated with. His unique writing style that combines philosophy, spirituality, history, humor, and paradox have made him one of the most widely read authors of modern times. As Ahlquist shows in his engaging volume, this most quoted writer of the 20th century has much to share with us on topics covering politics, art, education, wonder, marriage, fads, poetry, faith, charity and much more.
Author: Kendra Hazlett Armstrong
Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing ()
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781938499258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David W. Bercot
Publisher: Scroll Publishing Co.
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780924722066
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