Liberty And Conscience

Author : Martha Nussbaum
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780786721948

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Liberty of Conscience by Martha Nussbaum Pdf

In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people's deeply held conscientious beliefs. It granted equal liberty of conscience to all and took a firm stand against religious establishment. This respect for religious difference, acclaimed scholar Martha Nussbaum writes, formed our democracy. Yet today there are signs that this legacy is misunderstood. The prominence of a particular type of Christianity in our public life suggests the unequal worth of citizens who hold different religious beliefs, or no beliefs. Other people, meanwhile, seek to curtail the influence of religion in public life in a way that is itself unbalanced and unfair. Such partisan efforts, Nussbaum argues, violate the spirit of our Constitution. Liberty of Conscience is a historical and conceptual study of the American tradition of religious freedom. Weaving together political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases, this is a rich chronicle of an ideal of equality that has always been central to our history but is now in serious danger.

Author : Daniel L. Dreisbach,Mark David Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124143251

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The Sacred Rights of Conscience by Daniel L. Dreisbach,Mark David Hall Pdf

This compilation of primary documents provides a thorough and balanced examination of the evolving relationship between public religion and American culture, from pre-colonial biblical and European sources to the early nineteenth century, to allow the reader to explore the social and political forces that defined the concept of religious liberty and shaped American church-state relations. --from publisher description.

Author : Jon Mandle,David A. Reidy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316190315

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The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon by Jon Mandle,David A. Reidy Pdf

John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law.

Author : Edward Bean Underhill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Baptists
ISBN : MSU:31293016801445

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Tracts on Liberty of Conscience and Persecution, 1614-1661 by Edward Bean Underhill Pdf

Author : Samuel Rutherford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1649
Category : Arminians
ISBN : PRNC:32101067678225

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A Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience by Samuel Rutherford Pdf

Author : Thomas Kselman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300235647

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Conscience and Conversion by Thomas Kselman Pdf

Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at several individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their contemporaries. Exploring their reasons and the repercussions they faced, Kselman demonstrates how this expanded sense of liberty informs our secular age.

Author : L. John Van Til
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Liberty of conscience
ISBN : OCLC:5150260

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Liberty of Conscience by L. John Van Til Pdf

Author : Robert P. George
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781684516070

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Conscience and Its Enemies by Robert P. George Pdf

Assaults on religious liberty and traditional morality are growing fiercer. Here, at last, is the counterattack. This revised and updated paperback edition of the acclaimed Conscience and Its Enemies showcases the talents that have made Robert P. George one of America's most influential thinkers. Here George explodes the myth that the secular elite represents the voice of reason. In fact, it is on the elite side of the cultural divide where the prevailing views are little more than articles of faith. Conscience and Its Enemies reveals the bankruptcy of these too often smugly held orthodoxies while presenting powerfully reasoned arguments for classical virtues.In defending what James Madison called the "sacred rights of conscience"—rights for which government shows frightening contempt—George grapples with today's most controversial issues: same-sex marriage, abortion, transgenderism, genetic manipulation, euthanasia and assisted suicide, religion in politics, judicial activism, and more. His brilliantly argued essays rely not on theological claims or religious authority but on established scientific facts and a philosophical tradition that extends back to Plato and Aristotle. Conscience and Its Enemies sets forth powerful arguments that secular liberals are unaccustomed to hearing—and that embattled defenders of traditional morality so often fail to marshal.

Author : Jocelyn Maclure,Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674062955

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Secularism and Freedom of Conscience by Jocelyn Maclure,Charles Taylor Pdf

Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ranging analysis, Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism—equal respect, and freedom of conscience—and its two operative modes—separation of Church (or mosque or temple) and State, and State neutrality vis-à-vis religions. But more crucially, they make the powerful argument that in our ever more religiously diverse, politically interconnected world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only path to religious and philosophical freedom. Secularism and Freedom of Conscience grew out of a very real problem—Quebec’s need for guidelines to balance the equal respect due to all citizens with the right to religious freedom. But the authors go further, rethinking secularism in light of other critical issues of our time. The relationship between religious beliefs and deeply-held secular convictions, the scope of the free exercise of religion, and the place of religion in the public sphere are aspects of the larger challenge Maclure and Taylor address: how to manage moral and religious diversity in a free society. Secularism, they show, is essential to any liberal democracy in which citizens adhere to a plurality of conceptions of what gives meaning and direction to human life. The working model the authors construct in this nuanced account is capacious enough to accommodate difference and freedom of conscience, while holding out hope for a world in which diversity no longer divides us.

Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : 9780300226638

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Liberty in the Things of God by Robert Louis Wilken Pdf

From one of the leading historians of Christianity comes this sweeping reassessment of religious freedom, from the church fathers to John Locke In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external force, laying a foundation on which later generations would build. Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how "the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day."

Author : Henry Clay Vedder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Baptists
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR59947039

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Baptists and Liberty of Conscience by Henry Clay Vedder Pdf

Author : Edwin Scott Gaustad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Baptists
ISBN : 051701338X

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Liberty of Conscience by Edwin Scott Gaustad Pdf

Author : Samuel Rutherford
Publisher : Gospel Covenant Publications
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Conscience, Liberty and God's Word by Samuel Rutherford Pdf

What is our rule? What guides the Christian in his daily affairs? Does every Christian have a right and title to choose, according to the dictates of his conscience, what it is he shall believe and practice before God? Or does the Word of God, as contained in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, have the first and final word?These and many other questions of a similar nature are addressed in this book Conscience, Liberty and God's Word (previously titled A Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience). Penned in 1649, it is the most comprehensive treatment of the relation between conscience and Word of God the world has known. The name of its author, Samuel Rutherford, may well speak for itself. Known and confirmed throughout the centuries since his life and death as one of the brightest ministers of the gospel Christ has given to his church upon earth, his books, treatises and sermons are read and loved by faithful Christians everywhere.

Author : William Penn,W. P.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1670
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : UCD:31175035146854

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The Great Case of Liberty of Conscience Once More Briefly Debated & Defended by William Penn,W. P. Pdf

Author : Lucas Swaine
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231509812

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The Liberal Conscience by Lucas Swaine Pdf

"A new liberal theory awaits, one that properly acknowledges the fundamental values and commitments of theocrats and liberals alike."—from The Liberal of Conscience In recent years, the battle between liberalism and theocracy has taken center stage around the globe. To many it is a dispute that can only end in a confrontation of competing values and worldviews. In this bold new work, Lucas Swaine combines discussions of political philosophy and real-world events to provide solutions to this seemingly intractable conflict. By opening a dialogue between theocracy and liberalism and offering strategies for interacting with politically ambitious theocrats, Swaine offers new and vital perspectives on the role of religion in liberal, multicultural societies. Swaine begins by exploring the nature and development of theocratic communities and the moral and political challenges they pose to liberal societies. He argues that in their treatment of theocratic communities, liberal societies have failed to uphold their own stated principles of religious toleration. They have also neglected to formulate a suitable schema for treating theocratic communities ensconced in liberal democracies and to provide reasons for theocrats to affirm liberal institutions. Swaine calls upon liberals to redefine and reassert the fundamental importance of liberty of conscience. By doing so, liberal societies will reinvigorate their own traditions, while also assuaging religious conflict. In addition to philosophical arguments, Swaine proposes a new legal standard that offers theocratic communities quasi sovereignty within liberal democracies. Theocrats also have much to gain from embracing liberalism and the principle of liberty of conscience. Swaine argues that liberalism can be made more appealing to the values and concerns of theocrats if the liberal commitment to freedom of conscience is clarified and modified and if liberals take a fresh approach to conceptualizing and promulgating liberal principles, institutions, and laws.