The Christian Citizen The Obligations Of The Christian Citizen
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Author | : Vincent D. Rougeau |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2008-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195188098 |
This book challenges the argument that the United States is a Christian nation, and that the American founding and the American Constitution can be linked to a Christian understanding of the state and society. Vincent Rougeau argues that the United States has become an economic empire of consumer citizens, led by elites who seek to secure American political and economic dominance around the world. Freedom and democracy for the oppressed are the public themes put forward to justify this dominance, but the driving force behind American hegemony is the need to sustain economic growth and maintain social peace in the United States. --from publisher description.
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Publisher | : American Vision |
Total Pages | : 135 |
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ISBN | : 0915815753 |
Author | : A. D. Eddy |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2024-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368733176 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Author | : Sandra Fullerton Joireman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195378466 |
Christians are often portrayed as sharing the same political opinions and the same theological foundations for their actions. Yet, from the time of the early church, believers have held a variety of perspectives on the relationship between church and state and what constitutes legitimate political behavior for Christian citizens. Thoroughly Christian political beliefs run the gamut from disavowal of any political responsibility to a complete endorsement of government policies and the belief that the state has been divinely appointed. In Church, State, and Citizen, Sandra F. Joireman has gathered political scientists to examine the relationship between religion and politics as seen from within seven Christian traditions: Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Anglican, Evangelical and Pentecostal. In each chapter the historical and theological foundations of the tradition are described along with the beliefs regarding the appropriate role of the state and citizen. While all Christian traditions share certain beliefs about faith (e.g., human sin, salvation, Christ's atonement) and political life (e.g. limited government, human rights, the incompleteness and partiality of all political action) there are also profound differences. The authors discuss the contemporary implications of these beliefs both in the United States and in other areas of the world where Christianity is showing increasing vigor.
Author | : Wilda C. Gafney |
Publisher | : Church Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1640655719 |
The next installment in the critically acclaimed lectionary series that focuses on women's stories. In this second volume of the three-volume Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, widely praised womanist bible scholar and priest Wil Gafney selects scripture readings that emphasize women's stories. Focusing especially on the Gospel of Mark, Year B of A Women's Lectionary features Gafney's fresh, inclusive, and thought-provoking translations of every reading, alongside commentary on each reading. Designed for liturgical use or scriptural study, this resource offers a new perspective on the Bible and the liturgical year. “Gafney's paradigm-shifting scholarship will influence biblical preaching and teaching for generations to come." —National Catholic Reporter
Author | : Nancy L. Rosenblum |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691228248 |
Of the many challenges facing liberal democracy, none is as powerful and pervasive today as those posed by religion. These are the challenges taken up in Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith, an exploration of the place of religion in contemporary public life. The essays in this volume suggest that two important shifts have altered the balance between the competing obligations of citizenship and faith: the growth of religious pluralism and the escalating calls of religious groups for some measure of autonomy or recognition from democratic majorities. The authors--political theorists, philosophers, legal scholars, and social scientists--collectively argue that more room should be made for religion in today's democratic societies. Though they advocate different ways of carving out and justifying the proper bounds of "church and state" in pluralist democracies, they all write from within democratic theory and share the aim of democratic accommodation of religion. Alert to national differences in political circumstances and the particularities of constitutional and legal systems, these contributors consider the question of religious accommodation from the standpoint of institutional practices and law as well as that of normative theory. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and comparative focus, this volume makes a timely and much-needed intervention in current debates about religion and politics. The contributors are Nancy L. Rosenblum, Alan Wolfe, Ronald Thiemann, Michael McConnell, Graham Walker, Amy Gutmann, Kent Greenawalt, Aviam Soifer, Harry Hirsch, Gary Jacobsohn, Yael Tamir, Martha Nussbaum, and Carol Weisbrod.
Author | : Sam Harris |
Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307265773 |
A criticism of Christianity from the secularist point of view.
Author | : John MacArthur |
Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802450951 |
Author | : Ansel Doane Eddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
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Author | : Elizabeth L. Jemison |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2020-10-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1469659700 |
With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on biblical narratives as the basis for very different political imaginaries during and after Reconstruction. Focusing on everyday Protestants in the Mississippi River Valley, Jemison scours their biblical thinking and religious attitudes toward race. She argues that the evangelical groups that dominated this portion of the South shaped contesting visions of black and white rights. Black evangelicals saw the argument for their identities as Christians and as fully endowed citizens supported by their readings of both the Bible and U.S. law. The Bible, as they saw it, prohibited racial hierarchy, and Amendments 13, 14, and 15 advanced equal rights. Countering this, white evangelicals continued to emphasize a hierarchical paternalistic order that, shorn of earlier justifications for placing whites in charge of blacks, now fell into the defense of an increasingly violent white supremacist social order. They defined aspects of Christian identity so as to suppress black equality—even praying, as Jemison documents, for wisdom in how to deny voting rights to blacks. This religious culture has played into remarkably long-lasting patterns of inequality and segregation.