Established Church
Author: Mark Chapman
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0567358097
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Author: Mark Chapman
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0567358097
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Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1782395040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, Our Church is a graceful and persuasive book.
Author: Forrest Church
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011-05-03
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 080707747X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in paperback, a primer of essential writings about one of the cornerstones of our democracy by the original authors of the Constitution, edited by preeminant liberal theologian Forrest Church. Americans will never stop debating the question of church-state separation, and such debates invariably lead back to the nation’s beginnings and the founders’ intent. The Separation of Church and State presents a basic collection of the founders’ teachings on this topic. This concise primer gets past the rhetoric that surrounds the current debate, placing the founders’ vivid writings on religious liberty in historical perspective. Edited and with running commentary by Forrest Church, this important collection informs anyone curious about the original blueprint for our country and its government.
Author: Williston Walker
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 662
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Barton
Publisher: Wallbuilder Press
Published: 2007-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781932225419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first amendment of the U.S. Constitution is discussed in regard to the intent of the Founding Fathers.
Author: Sidney Z. Ehler
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780819601896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce Ledewitz
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780253356345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAims to provide a way for two opposing sides to compromise when it comes to the issue of separation of church and state.
Author: Forrest Church
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2008-09-08
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 054754510X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of The American Creed tells “the story of our nation’s historical encounters with God and culture” (Peter J. Gomes, New York Times bestselling author). Today’s dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a revelatory look at our nation’s birth, Forrest Church recreates our first great culture war—a tumultuous, nearly forgotten conflict that raged from George Washington’s presidency to James Monroe’s. Religion was the most divisive issue in the nation’s early presidential elections. Battles raged over numerous issues while the bible and the Declaration of Independence competed for American affections. The religious political wars reached a vicious peak during the War of 1812; the American victory drove New England’s Christian right to withdraw from electoral politics, thereby shaping our modern sense of church-state separation. No longer entangled, both church and state flourished. Forrest Church has written a rich, page-turning history, a new vision of our earliest presidents’ beliefs that stands as a reminder and a warning for America today. “An illuminating study of the great tangle of our time. If we look back to our early years, we may well find a way forward.” —Jon Meacham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of His Truth is Marching On “In this beautifully crafted and timely work, the aptly named Church takes us through the complex thoughts and actions of the nation’s founders in a way that will give pause to most readers . . . This is an important work that delights and informs.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author: Hilary M. Carey
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-12-06
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 900419200X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on a diverse range of case studies in both the Old World of Europe and the New World of the European settler societies in the United States, Australia and New Zealand this volume offers an original perspective on the conduct of church-state relations and how these have been reshaped by translation from the Old to the New Worlds.
Author: William T. Cavanaugh
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0802866093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether one thinks that religion continues to fade or has made a comeback in the contemporary world, there is a common notion that religion went away somewhere, at least in the West. But William Cavanaugh argues that religious fervor never left it has only migrated toward a new object of worship. In Migrations of the Holy he examines the disconcerting modern transfer of sacred devotion from the church to the nation-state. In these chapters Cavanaugh cautions readers to be wary of a rigid separation of religion and politics that boxes in the church and sends citizens instead to the state for hope, comfort, and salvation as they navigate the risks and pains of mortal life. When nationality becomes the primary source of identity and belonging, he warns, the state becomes the god and idol of its own religion, the language of nationalism becomes a liturgy, and devotees willingly sacrifice their lives to serve and defend their country. Cavanaugh urges Christians to resist this form of idolatry, to unthink the inevitability of the nation-state and its dreary party politics, to embrace radical forms of political pluralism that privilege local communities and to cling to an incarnational theology that weaves itself seamlessly and tangibly into all aspects of daily life and culture. William Cavanaugh continues to provide leadership and vision in the field of political theology. He addresses essential questions about the religious status of the nation-state, the political character of the church, and how the tradition of Christian political thought might be brought to bear upon contemporary politics. . . . Unfolds a theological response to present political conditions and a political response to our theological condition. Luke Bretherton King s College London Another vigorous but distinct voice in the burgeoning conversation about the role of religion generally and the church specifically in political life. . . . Worth a careful read. Robert Benne