Post God Nation

Author : Roy Williams
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781460703328

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Post-God Nation by Roy Williams Pdf

Why religion fell off the radar in Australia - and how it can get back on At the time of Federation 98% of Australians identified themselves as Christians. Now only 8% say they regularly go to Church. What's changed? How did Australia become a post-Christian nation and what part did the Churches play in their own decline? Author Roy Williams (God, Actually, In God they trust?) has long been an impassioned defender of Christianity. Here, he tackles the decline of the church head on, acknowledging that in many cases, inflexibility, negativity and a refusal to listen have led to a tarnished image. But he also argues that Australia had a long and often misunderstood Christian heritage. And without it, he says, we will become a society with no moral centre, a community where rampant materialism is the only rule. Offering a bold roadmap for the Church to change, Williams challenges atheists, agnostics and true believers to a genuinely open debate about the force of faith.

Author : Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465040643

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One Nation Under God by Kevin M. Kruse Pdf

The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. To fight the "slavery" of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for "freedom under God" that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was "one nation under God." Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.

Author : Mark A. Stelter
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385010523

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Post-Christian Nation by Mark A. Stelter Pdf

We have been indoctrinated with the lie that belief in God is irrational. As a result, the United States is rapidly becoming a post-Christian nation. At the current rate, by 2040 most Americans will no longer identify as Christian. Mark Stelter relies on his professional experiences as a lawyer, theologian, and former college professor to carefully examine secular materialism and clearly demonstrate that it is the theistic worldview—not the atheistic worldview—that is most supported by the evidence. Stelter explores a variety of topics that include the triumph of secularism in American culture, the shift in worldviews, the separation of church and state, the academic assault on religion, moral truth versus moral relativism, the intolerance of tolerance, and much more. Post-Christian Nation is a well-documented examination of how Christianity—not atheism—prevails when tested by reason, logic, and science.

Author : Andrew L. Whitehead,Samuel L. Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190057886

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Taking America Back for God by Andrew L. Whitehead,Samuel L. Perry Pdf

Why do white Protestants in America embrace a president who seems to violate their basic standards of morality? The answer, Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry argue, is "Christian nationalism," the belief that the United States is -- and should be -- a Christian nation. Knowing someone's stance on Christian nationalism, this book shows, tells us more about his or her political beliefs than race, religion, or political party. Drawing on national survey data and interviews with Americans across the political spectrum, Taking America Back for God illustrates the tremendous influence of Christian nationalism on debates about the most contentious issues dominating American public life.

Author : R. Bruce Douglass,Joshua Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0742507513

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A Nation Under God? by R. Bruce Douglass,Joshua Mitchell Pdf

A Nation under God? is a collection of original essays by political and legal theorists on the future of religion as an active influence in American public life. This book displays a distinctive set of arguments on topics that range from the ethics of religious witness in public life to the future of civil religion in America.

Author : Erwin W. Lutzer
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802493316

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When a Nation Forgets God by Erwin W. Lutzer Pdf

This excellent book is so important. It clearly and powerfully explains what the parallels are between Germany's fall from grace and the beginning of our own fall. - Eric Metaxas, author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy In When A Nation Forgets God, Erwin Lutzer studies seven similarities between Nazi Germany and America today—some of them chilling—and cautions us to respond accordingly. Engaging, well-researched, and easy to understand, Lutzer’s writing is that of a realist, one alarmed but unafraid. Amidst describing the messes of our nation’s government, economy, legal pitfalls, propaganda, and more, Lutzer points to the God who always has a plan. At the beginning of the twentieth Century, Nazi Germany didn’t look like a country on the brink of world-shaking terrors. It looked like America today. When a Nation Forgets God uses history to warn us of a future that none of us wants to see. It urges us to be ordinary heroes who speak up and take action.

Author : James Tarter
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365642753

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GOD'S JUST JUDGMENT OF A NATION by James Tarter Pdf

Author : Rod Dreher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780735213319

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The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade." —David Brooks In this controversial bestseller, Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life. From the inside, American churches have been hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseudo–Christianity. From the outside, they are beset by challenges to religious liberty in a rapidly secularizing culture. Keeping Hillary Clinton out of the White House may have bought a brief reprieve from the state’s assault, but it will not stop the West’s slide into decadence and dissolution. Rod Dreher argues that the way forward is actu­ally the way back—all the way to St. Benedict of Nur­sia. This sixth-century monk, horrified by the moral chaos following Rome’s fall, retreated to the forest and created a new way of life for Christians. He built enduring communities based on principles of order, hospitality, stability, and prayer. His spiritual centers of hope were strongholds of light throughout the Dark Ages, and saved not just Christianity but Western civilization. Today, a new form of barbarism reigns. Many believers are blind to it, and their churches are too weak to resist. Politics offers little help in this spiritual crisis. What is needed is the Benedict Option, a strategy that draws on the authority of Scripture and the wisdom of the ancient church. The goal: to embrace exile from mainstream culture and construct a resilient counterculture. The Benedict Option is both manifesto and rallying cry for Christians who, if they are not to be conquered, must learn how to fight on culture war battlefields like none the West has seen for fifteen hundred years. It's for all mere Chris­tians—Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox—who can read the signs of the times. Neither false optimism nor fatalistic despair will do. Only faith, hope, and love, embodied in a renewed church, can sustain believers in the dark age that has overtaken us. These are the days for building strong arks for the long journey across a sea of night.

Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307265777

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Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris Pdf

A criticism of Christianity from the secularist point of view.

Author : Leon R. Kass
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300253030

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Founding God’s Nation by Leon R. Kass Pdf

In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, humanist scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some the most important book in the Hebrew Bible, Exodus tells the story of the Jewish people from their enslavement in Egypt, through their liberation under Moses's leadership, to the covenantal founding at Sinai and the building of the Tabernacle. In Kass's analysis, these events began the slow process of learning how to stop thinking like slaves and become an independent people. The Israelites ultimately founded their nation on three elements: a shared narrative that instills empathy for the poor and the suffering, the uplifting rule of a moral law, and devotion to a higher common purpose. These elements, Kass argues, remain the essential principles for any freedom-loving nation today.

Author : James A. Morone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300130232

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Hellfire Nation by James A. Morone Pdf

Annotation. Although the US is proud of being a secular state, religion lies at the heart of American politics. This volume looks at how the country came to have the soul of a church & the consequences - the moral crusades against slavery, alcohol, witchcraft & discrimination that time & again have prevailed upon the nation.

Author : Frederick F. Anscombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107042162

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State, Faith, and Nation in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Lands by Frederick F. Anscombe Pdf

This book argues that religious affiliation was the most influential shaper of communal identity in the Ottoman era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : UCSC:32106019666426

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A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rico Isaacs,Abel Polese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317090199

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Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space by Rico Isaacs,Abel Polese Pdf

Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth case studies from countries throughout the post-Soviet space it compares various aspects of nation-building and identity formation projects. Approaching the issue from a variety of disciplines, and geographical areas, contributors illustrate chapter by chapter how different state and non-state actors utilise traditional instruments of nation-construction in new ways while also developing non-traditional tools and strategies to provide a contemporary account of how nation-formation efforts evolve and diverge.

Author : Philip Schaff,Henry Wace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : UVA:X001092501

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A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff,Henry Wace Pdf