Law and Religion in American History

Public Values and Private Conscience

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book Law and Religion in American History by Mark Douglas McGarvie, Cambridge University Press
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Author: Mark Douglas McGarvie ISBN: 9781316683330
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: July 18, 2016
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Mark Douglas McGarvie
ISBN: 9781316683330
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 18, 2016
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This book furthers dialogue on the separation of church and state with an approach that emphasizes intellectual history and the constitutional theory that underlies American society. Mark Douglas McGarvie explains that the founding fathers of America considered the right of conscience to be an individual right, to be protected against governmental interference. While the religion clauses enunciated this right, its true protection occurred in the creation of separate public and private spheres. Religion and the churches were placed in the private sector. Yet, politically active Christians have intermittently mounted challenges to this bifurcation in calling for a greater public role for Christian faith and morality in American society. Both students and scholars will learn much from this intellectual history of law and religion that contextualizes a four-hundred-year-old ideological struggle.

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This book furthers dialogue on the separation of church and state with an approach that emphasizes intellectual history and the constitutional theory that underlies American society. Mark Douglas McGarvie explains that the founding fathers of America considered the right of conscience to be an individual right, to be protected against governmental interference. While the religion clauses enunciated this right, its true protection occurred in the creation of separate public and private spheres. Religion and the churches were placed in the private sector. Yet, politically active Christians have intermittently mounted challenges to this bifurcation in calling for a greater public role for Christian faith and morality in American society. Both students and scholars will learn much from this intellectual history of law and religion that contextualizes a four-hundred-year-old ideological struggle.

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