Author: E. Cahill, ReverendPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781976100185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
An overview of Catholic political thought.
The Framework of a Christian State
Author: E. Cahill, ReverendPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781976100185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
An overview of Catholic political thought.
The Framework of a Christian State
Author: E. CahillPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781541354616
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The book is intended primarily for students of Social Science who accept the Church's teaching. Its main purpose is to summarise and present in a consecutive and more or less scientific form the main elements of the teachings of the Roman Pontiffs (especially Leo XIII and our present Holy Father Pius XI), the Catholic Bishops and the standard Catholic authors on questions connected with social organisation and public life, including such topics as personal rights and duties, the privileges and position of the family in the social organism, the interrelations of capital and labour, the place of religion in public life, education, the functions of the State, its constitution, laws and administration, the due interrelations of its component parts with one another, its relations with the Church, etc.
Taking America Back for God
Author: Andrew L. WhiteheadPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190057882
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Why do white Protestants in America embrace a president who seems to violate their basic standards of morality? The answer, Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry argue, is "Christian nationalism," the belief that the United States is -- and should be -- a Christian nation. Knowing someone's stance on Christian nationalism, this book shows, tells us more about his or her political beliefs than race, religion, or political party. Drawing on national survey data and interviews with Americans across the political spectrum, Taking America Back for God illustrates the tremendous influence of Christian nationalism on debates about the most contentious issues dominating American public life.
The Myth of American Religious Freedom
Author: David SehatPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199793115
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents. In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat provides an eye-opening history of religion in public life, overturning our most cherished myths. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government, which had limited authority. The Protestant moral establishment ruled on the state level. Using moral laws to uphold religious power, religious partisans enforced a moral and religious orthodoxy against Catholics, Jews, Mormons, agnostics, and others. Not until 1940 did the U.S. Supreme Court extend the First Amendment to the states. As the Supreme Court began to dismantle the connections between religion and government, Sehat argues, religious conservatives mobilized to maintain their power and began the culture wars of the last fifty years. To trace the rise and fall of this Protestant establishment, Sehat focuses on a series of dissenters--abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, socialist Eugene V. Debs, and many others. Shattering myths held by both the left and right, David Sehat forces us to rethink some of our most deeply held beliefs. By showing the bad history used on both sides, he denies partisans a safe refuge with the Founders.
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?
Author: John FeaPublisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1611640881
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Fea offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. Readers on both sides of the issues will appreciate that this book occupies a middle ground, noting the good points and the less-nuanced arguments of both sides and leading us always back to the primary sources that our shared American history comprises.
Secularism and State Policies Toward Religion
Author: Ahmet T. KuruPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052151780X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Comparing policy in America, France, and Turkey, this book analyzes the impact of ideological struggles on public policies toward religion.
The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas
Author: William McCormickPublisher: Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 9780813237091
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A sustained study of De Regno holds out the possibility of yielding rich rewards. McCormick's study aims to do just that by exploring its responses to the problem of the relation of the politics to the transcendent. On the most essential level, McCormick reads Aquinas's text as an elegant synthesis of Aristotelian naturalism and Augustinian theology."--VoegelinView
Renewing the Vision
Author: Publisher: USCCB Publishing
ISBN: 9781574550047
Category : Catholic youth
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This volume provides all who minister to young people with an effective blueprint for building a truly meaningful ministry
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland
Author: Crawford GribbenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192638572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples. Throughout its long history, Christianity in Ireland has lurched from crisis to crisis. Surviving the hostility of earlier religious cultures and the depredations of Vikings, evolving in the face of Gregorian reformation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and more radical protestant renewal from the sixteenth century, Christianity has shaped in foundational ways how the Irish have understood themselves and their place in the world. And the Irish have shaped Christianity, too. Their churches have staffed some of the religion's most important institutions and developed some of its most popular ideas. But the Irish church, like the island, is divided. After 1922, a border marked out two jurisdictions with competing religious politics. The southern state turned to the Catholic church to shape its social mores, until it emerged from an experience of sudden-onset secularization to become one of the most progressive nations in Europe. The northern state moved more slowly beyond the protestant culture of its principal institutions, but in a similar direction of travel. In 2021, 1,500 years on from the birth of Saint Columba, Christian Ireland appears to be vanishing. But its critics need not relax any more than believers ought to despair. After the failure of several varieties of religious nationalism, what looks like irredeemable failure might actually be a second chance. In the ruins of the church, new Patricks and Columbas shape the rise of another Christian Ireland.
A State of Mixture
Author: Richard E. PaynePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520286197
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks. Whereas previous studies have regarded Christians as marginal, insular, and often persecuted participants in this empire, Richard Payne demonstrates their integration into elite networks, adoption of Iranian political practices and imaginaries, and participation in imperial institutions. ÊThe rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion. Christians, for their part, positioned themselves in a political culture not of their own making, with recourse to their own ideological and institutional resources, ranging from the writing of saintsÕ lives to the judicial arbitration of bishops. In placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, A State of Mixture helps explain the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries. Ê