Church State category: 1367 books
Render Unto Caesar
Serving the Nation by Living our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
“People who take God seriously will not remain silent about their faith. They will often disagree about doctrine or policy, but they won’t be quiet. They can’t be. They’ll act on what they believe, sometimes at the cost of their reputations and careers. Obviously the common good demands a...
An English Spring
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
When John Henry Newman spoke of his hopes for the renewal of the Church, he imagined not only sunshine and the blossoming of new life, but icy winds and torrential rain. His forecast of 'an English Spring' was to prove remarkably far-sighted.
With affection and wry humour, another English cardinal,...
by Aristotle Papanikolaou
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology...
Blasphemous Modernism
The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Scholars have long described modernism as "heretical" or "iconoclastic" in its assaults on secular traditions of form, genre, and decorum. Yet critics have paid surprisingly little attention to the related category of blasphemy--the rhetoric of religious offense--and to the specific...
Awaiting the King (Cultural Liturgies Book #3)
Reforming Public Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but also lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would...
by Damon Linker
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
An essential history of the influential men who have spearheaded the movement to erode the wall separating church and state.Beginning as far-left radicals during the 1960s, the theocons in Damon Linker’s book (including Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel) gradually transitioned...
by Marc O. DeGirolami
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Legal scholars expect to resolve religious dilemmas according to principles of equality, neutrality, or separation of church and state. But such abstractions fail to do justice to the clashing values in today’s pluralistic society. Marc DeGirolami explains why conflicts implicating religious liberty are so emotionally fraught and deeply contested.
Renounce, Resist, Rejoice
Being Church in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a watershed moment in American history. In this book, Michael Coffey reflects on major social and religious issues leading up to and following the election. Coffey addresses the political issues of the day, not from...
God on Trial
Landmark Cases from America's Religious Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
An insightful and dramatic account of religious conflicts that keep America divided, from the acclaimed author of A People's History of the Supreme Court
As the United States has become increasingly conservative, both politically and socially, in recent years, the fight between the religious...
Catholicism and American Political Ideologies
Catholic Social Teaching, Liberalism, and Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This book examines the perspectives of American liberalism and conservatism in the new millennium—their general political and social philosophy and their positions in leading public issue areas—and evaluates them in light of Catholic social teaching. Before making that evaluation, it sets out...
One Nation Under God
The Rise or Fall of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Bob Yandian discusses the Bible's answer to how crime and immorality can be stopped and what can be done to save our nation. Included in the topics he considers are: • Authority in the home • Crime and immorality • Capital punishment • Separation of church and state • Freedom and war. God has provided answers as to what causes a nation to be blessed and what brings prosperity.
Tea Party Catholic
The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy, and Human Flourishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Targeting core tenets of the Tea Party movement, including political economy and economic history, Samuel Gregg makes the case for a new breed of conservative—the Tea Party Catholic. Long married to the conventional liberal ideologies of the past, American Catholics were largely wed to the political...
by Gary Scott Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought 'moral values' was the most important issue at stake. People on both sides of the political divide believed this was the key to victory for George W. Bush, who professes a deep and abiding...
Politics Reformed
The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Many studies have considered the Bible’s relationship to politics, but almost all have ignored the heart of its narrative and theology: the covenant. In this book, Glenn Moots explores the political meaning of covenants past and present by focusing on the theory and application of covenantal politics...