Author: David McAllisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The National Reform Movement, Its History and Principles
Author: David McAllisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The National Reform Movement, Its History and Principles
Author: David McAllisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion and state
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Founding Sins
Author: Joseph Solomon MoorePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190269243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The United States was not founded as a Christian nation, since slavery was in the Constitution but Jesus was not. The Covenanters, America's first Christian nationalists and earliest abolitionists, advanced that argument to the Founding Fathers and to generations of Americans. From their brief reign over Scotland to their failed attempts to amend the American Constitution to acknowledge Christ, Covenanters infused themselves into the long tradition of Christian nationalism that forged the modern religious Right. This book examines the forgotten history of America's first Christian nationalists.
Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Wayne E. FullerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091353
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America explores the evolution of postal innovations that sparked a communication revolution in nineteenth-century America. Wayne E. Fuller examines how evangelical Protestants, the nation’s dominant religious group, struggled against those transformations in American society that they believed threatened to paganize the Christian nation they were determined to save. Drawing on House and Senate documents, postmasters general reports, and the Congressional Record, as well as sermons, speeches, and articles from numerous religious and secular periodicals, Fuller illuminates the problems the changed postal system posed for evangelicals, from Sunday mail delivery and Sunday newspapers to an avalanche of unseemly material brought into American homes via improved mail service and reduced postage prices. Along the way, Fuller offers new perspectives on the church and state controversy in the United States as well as on publishing, politics, birth control, the lottery, censorship, Congress’s postal power, and the waning of evangelical Protestant influence.
Philosophical Foundations of the Religious Axis
Author: John R. PottengerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030339742
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book discusses the evolution of three philosophical foundations from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries that converged to form the basis of liberal democracy’s approach to the place and role of religion in society and politics. Identified by the author as a “religious axis,” the period of convergence promoted rational and empirical investigation, enabled the development of diverse religious beliefs, and affirmed religious liberty and expressions amidst pluralist politics. The author shows that the religious axis’ three philosophical foundations—epistemic, axiological, and political—undergird the political architecture of American liberal democracy that designed a containment structure to protect a vast array of religious expressions and encourage their presence in the public square. Moreover, the structure embodied a democratic ethos that drives religious and political pluralism—but within limits. The author argues that this containment structure has paradoxically ignited frenzied fires of faith that politically threaten the structure’s own limits.
The American Church History Series: A history of the Presbyterian churches, by R.E. Thompson
Author: Philip SchaffPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The American Church History Series: A history of the Presbyterian churches, by R.E. Thompson
Author: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S.
Author: Barbara A. McGrawPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118528654
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. provides a broad, inclusive, and rich range of chapters, in the study of religion and politics. Arranged in their historical context, chapters address themes of history, law, social and religious movements, policy and political theory. Broadens the parameters of this timely subject, and includes the latest work in the field Draws together newly-commissioned essays by distinguished authors that are cogent for scholars, while also being in a style that is accessible to students. Provides a balanced and inclusive approach to religion and politics in the U.S. Engages diverse perspectives from various discourses about religion and politics across the political and disciplinary spectra, while placing them in their larger historical context
A History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States
Author: Robert E. ThompsonPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725208962
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States
Author: Robert Ellis ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presbyterianism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description