The Bible In American Law And Politics

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While scholars increasingly recognize the importance of religion throughout American history, The Bible in American Law and Politics is the first reference book to focus on the key role that the Bible has played in American public life. In considering revolting from Great Britain, Americans contemplated whether this was consistent with scripture. Americans subsequently sought to apply Biblical passages to such issues as slavery, women’s rights, national alcoholic prohibition, issues of war and peace, and the like. American presidents continue to take their oath on the Bible. Some of America’s greatest speeches, for example, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural and William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold speech, have been grounded on Biblical texts or analogies. Today, Americans continue to cite the Bible for positions as diverse as LGBTQ rights, abortion, immigration, welfare, health care, and other contemporary issues. By providing essays on key speeches, books, documents, legal decisions, and other writings throughout American history that have sought to buttress arguments through citations to Scriptures or to Biblical figures, John Vile provides an indispensable guide for scholars and students in religion, American history, law, and political science to understand how Americans throughout its history have interpreted and applied the Bible to legal and political issues.

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Genre : Religion
Author : John R. Vile
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release : 2020-09-19
File : 679 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781538141670


The Bible In American Law Politics And Political Rhetoric

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Genre : Bible
Author : James Turner Johnson
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Release : 1985
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105039932913


Encyclopedia Of American Civil Liberties

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Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of American Civil Liberties. The book covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for lawyers, scholars and students.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2021-02-25
File : 2570 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351269636


Justice And Compassion In Biblical Law

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Annotation. Richard Hiers provides a new consideration biblical law with an emphasis upon the underlying justice and compassion implicit within. Special consideration is given to matters of civil law, the death penalty, and due process.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Richard H. Hiers
Publisher : A&C Black
Release : 2009-12-14
File : 257 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780567269096


New Directions In American Religious History

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The eighteen essays collected in this book originate from a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Leading scholars were invited to reflect on their specialties in American religious history in ways that summarized both where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come. The essays are organized according to four general themes: places and regions, universal themes, transformative events, and marginal groups and ethnocultural "outsiders." They address a wide range of specific topics including Puritanism, Protestantism and economic behavior, gender and sexuality in American Protestantism, and the twentieth-century de-Christianization of American public culture. Among the contributors are such distinguished scholars as David D. Hall, Donald G. Matthews, Allen C. Guelzo, Gordon S. Wood, Daniel Walker Howe, Robert Wuthnow, Jon Butler, David A. Hollinger, Harry S. Stout, and John Higham. Taken together, these essays reveal a rapidly expanding field of study that is breaking out of its traditional confines and spilling into all of American history. The book takes the measure of the changes of the last quarter-century and charts numerous challenges to future work.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Harry S. Stout
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 1998-01-01
File : 513 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780198027201


Church And State In America A Bibliographical Guide

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The second in a two-volume bibliography on church-state relations in U.S. history, this book contains eleven critical essays and accompanying bibliographical listings on periods or topics from the Civil War to the present day. Each essay reviews the available relevant literature, and the listings emphasize critical studies and documents published in the last quarter-century. This reference work will enable the reader to grasp the historiographic issues, become acquainted with the resources available, and move on to interpret current as well as past issues more knowledgebly and effectively.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release : 1987-08-14
File : 469 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780313387616


Sin And Politics

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Sin and Politics: Issues in Reformed Theology is an overview of the relationship between sin and politics from the reformational point of view. This short theological history is comprised of three parts: politics without sin (creational politics), politics with sin (fallen politics), and politics beyond sin (redeemed politics). As a creation of human culture, politics have been tainted with sinful distortion in this world, but will be recovered in the future Kingdom by the eternal kingship of the Lord of Lords. Sin and Politics includes a summary and commentary on political discussions by various Reformed theologians. It uncovers the Reformed tradition's positive regard for politics and the profound theological root of politics.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Jeong Kii Min
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release : 2009
File : 282 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1433103729


Religion Und Politik In Den Vereinigten Staaten Von Amerika

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Genre : Christianity and politics
Author : Norbert Finzsch
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Release : 2012
File : 214 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783643114303


Faith And The Professions

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Thomas L. Shaffer argues that the morals of modern American lawyers and doctors have been corrupted by misguided professionalism and weak philosophy. He shows that professional codes exalt vocational principle over the traditional morals of character; but that, in practice, America's professionals and business people cultivate the ethics of character. The ethics of virtue have been neglected. The ethical argument in Faith and the Professions is in part an application to professional life of the position taken by Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue and in Revisions, and by Robert Bellah and his collaborators in Habits of the Heart. It is also, in part, an argument for the relevance of religious ethics.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Thomas L. Shaffer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release : 1987-01-01
File : 354 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0887065619


The Bible In American Law Politics And Political Rhetoric

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Genre : Law
Author : James Turner Johnson
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Release : 1985
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:35112100069899