Author: Montagu BURROWSPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Relations of Church and State Historically Considered. Two Public Lectures, Etc
Author: Montagu BURROWSChurch And State In American History
Author: John F WilsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429981295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Provides the key source materialshistorical and legalfor understanding the relationship of church and state.. The controversies surrounding aid to parochial schools, blue laws, school prayer, and birth control programs have been central to the ongoing search for the proper boundary between religious and political authority in America. This concise volume features chronologically organized selections from such official documents as colonial charters, court opinions, and legislation, along with incisive twentieth-century interpretations of the issues they treat. Historical figures as diverse as John F. Kennedy, Perry Miller, Reinhold Niebhur, and Paul Blanshard, together with contemporary ones illuminate the interrelationships between the legal, political, and religious structures of American society. We encounter controversies every day that concern school vouchers, prayer in schools and stadiums, religious symbols in public spaces, and tax support for faith-based social initiatives as well as arguments among advocates of "pro-choice" and "pro-life" positions. These and other issues are at the center of an ongoing search for a means to delineate the interactions among religious and political authorities-- initially in the United States but increasingly in the rest of the world as well. This concise volume presents chronologically-organized chapters that include selections from documents like colonial charters, opinions of the Supreme Court and salient legislation, along with contemporary commentary, and incisive interpretations of the issues by modern scholars. Figures as divergent as John Winthrop, John F. Kennedy, and Sandra Day OConnor speak from these pages as directly as Paul Blanshard, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, and Robert Bellah. Church and State in American History addresses the difficult relationships among the political and religious structures of our society and the emergence of an American solution to the church-state problem.
Separation of Church and State
Author: Philip HAMBURGERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674038185
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 529
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.
Church and State
Author: Friedrich Heinrich GeffckenPublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Relations of Church and State Historically Considered
Author: Montagu BurrowsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Church and State
Author: Friedrich Heinrich GeffckenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
The Relations of Church and State Historically Considered, 2 Lectures
Author: Montagu BurrowsPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359113160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
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Church And State In American History
Author: John F WilsonPublisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Provides the key source materials--historical and legal--for understanding the relationship of church and state.
Church and State, Their Relations, Vol. 1 of 2
Author: Heinrich GeffckenPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330994788
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Excerpt from Church and State, Their Relations, Vol. 1 of 2: Historically Developed Considering the importance of this question at the present time, it appeared to me well worth the labour to retrace the stages through which this grand historical pro cess has run; and from this outline and endeavour the present. Work has grown. Its object is ecclesiastico political - to present, in short, an historical guide-book for the problems of the present day. I am fully aware that the attempt. To compress within a small compass a subject so vast and multifarious can be nothing more than an attempt and I shall be grateful to criticism for every kind of correction and supplementary material. The nature of the subject rendered it imperative that I should examine, in conclusion, our own position in Germany. I have considered the resolution of the Prussian Government to regulate anew the relations of Church and State to be not only right but necessary. But from the first moment when that resolution came to be executed, my convictions led me to perceive a fatal mistake in the manner in which this was done. The reasons for this conviction I have endeavoured to state in the last section. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Church and State in American History
Author: John F. WilsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367314972
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Is America ?one nation under God?? We encounter controversies every day that concern prayer in schools and stadiums, school vouchers, religious symbols in public spaces, and tax support for faith-based social initiatives as well as arguments among advocates of pro-choice and pro-life positions. These and other issues are at the center of an ongoing