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Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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The Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter
Author: The Covenanter
Author: Founding Sins
Author: Joseph Solomon MoorePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190269243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In Founding Sins, Joseph Moore examines the forgotten history of the Covenanters, America's first Christian nationalists. He explores how they profoundly shaped American's understandings of the separation of church and state and set the acceptable limits for religion in politics for generations to come.
The Covenanter
Author: William Howard TaftThe Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter
Author: Thomas SproullPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382110172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
American Heretics
Author: Jerome E. CopulskyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300241305
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A penetrating account of the religious critics of American liberalism, pluralism, and democracy--from the Revolution until today "A chilling consideration of persistent mutations of American thought still threatening our pluralist democracy."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the Founders of the United States envisioned. Advocates of a "Christian America" claim that the Framers intended a nation whose political values and institutions were shaped by Christianity; secularists argue that they designed an enlightened republic where church and state were kept separate. Both sides appeal to the Founding to justify their beliefs about the kind of nation the United States was meant to be or should become. In this book, Jerome E. Copulsky complicates this ongoing public argument by examining a collection of thinkers who, on religious grounds, considered the nation's political ideas illegitimate, its institutions flawed, and its church-state arrangement defective. Beholden to visions of cosmic order and social hierarchy, rejecting the increasing pluralism and secularism of American society, they predicted the collapse of an unrighteous nation and the emergence of a new Christian commonwealth in its stead. By engaging their challenges and interpreting their visions we can better appreciate the perennial temptations of religious illiberalism--as well as the virtues and fragilities of America's liberal democracy.
Covenanters in Canada
Author: Eldon HayPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773541004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A sensitive and nuanced narrative of a dissenting religious minority in a pluralistic society.
N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
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The Literature of Reconstruction
Author: Brook ThomasPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421421321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
"In this groundbreaking new study, author Brook Thomas argues that literary analysis can enhance our historical understanding of race and Reconstruction. The standard view that Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877 is a retrospective construction. Works of literature provide the perspective of those who continued to see possibilities for its renewal well past 1877. Historians have long tried to reconcile social history's emphasis on the local with political history's emphasis on the national. Literature creates national political allegories while focusing on events in a particular locale. Moreover, the debate over Reconstruction was a debate about state legitimacy as well as specific laws. It was a question of foundational myths as well as foundational legal principles. Literature's political allegories allow us to recreate those debates rather than view the end of Reconstruction as a foregone conclusion. Because many of the issues raised by Reconstruction remain unresolved, those debates continue into the present. Chapters treat how the racial issues raised by Reconstruction are interwoven with debates over state v. national authority, efforts to combat terrorism (the KKK), the paternalism of welfare, economic expansion, and the question of who should rightly inherit the nation's past. Thomas examines authors who opposed Reconstruction, authors who supported it, and authors who struggled with mixed feelings. This exciting text will set the standard in literary historical studies for decades to come"--
North American Review's War Weekly
Author: George Brinton McClellan HarveyPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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