Author: John Fleming CarsonPublisher:
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Category : Christianity and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Is the American Republic a Christian State?
Author: John Fleming CarsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Living Church
Author: Catalogue of the General Theological Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Author: General Theological LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious literature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Catholic Builders of the Nation
Author: Constantine Edward McGuirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Christian Republic
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Separation of Church and State
Author: Philip HamburgerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424642X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed that the First Amendment separated church and state, separation became part of American constitutional law only much later. Hamburger shows that separation became a constitutional freedom largely through fear and prejudice. Jefferson supported separation out of hostility to the Federalist clergy of New England. Nativist Protestants (ranging from nineteenth-century Know Nothings to twentieth-century members of the K.K.K.) adopted the principle of separation to restrict the role of Catholics in public life. Gradually, these Protestants were joined by theologically liberal, anti-Christian secularists, who hoped that separation would limit Christianity and all other distinct religions. Eventually, a wide range of men and women called for separation. Almost all of these Americans feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and, in response to their fears, they increasingly perceived religious liberty to require a separation of church from state. American religious liberty was thus redefined and even transformed. In the process, the First Amendment was often used as an instrument of intolerance and discrimination.
Bulletin (1901-195 )
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Is the American Republic a Christian State?
Author: John Fleming CarsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
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