The Christian State

Author : Frederic C. Rich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393240344

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Christian Nation: A Novel by Frederic C. Rich Pdf

"They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do." So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America’s Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a "Christian Nation" and dead serious about acquiring the political power to achieve it. When President McCain dies and Sarah Palin becomes president, the reader, along with the nation, stumbles down a terrifyingly credible path toward theocracy, realizing too late that the Christian right meant precisely what it said. In the spirit of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, one of America’s foremost lawyers lays out in chilling detail what such a future might look like: constitutional protections dismantled; all aspects of life dominated by an authoritarian law called "The Blessing," enforced by a totally integrated digital world known as the "Purity Web." Readers will find themselves haunted by the questions the narrator struggles to answer in this fictional memoir: "What happened, why did it happen, how could it have happened?"

Author : John Fea
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611640885

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Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? by John Fea Pdf

Fea offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. Readers on both sides of the issues will appreciate that this book occupies a middle ground, noting the good points and the less-nuanced arguments of both sides and leading us always back to the primary sources that our shared American history comprises.

Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : E. Cahill, Reverend,Rev E Cahill S J
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1976100186

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The Framework of a Christian State by E. Cahill, Reverend,Rev E Cahill S J Pdf

An overview of Catholic political thought.

Author : Thomas Rawson Birks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Christian life
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU56695071

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The Christian State: Or, the First Principles of National Religion by Thomas Rawson Birks Pdf

Author : Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Sandra F. Joireman,Sandra Fullerton Joireman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195378467

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Church, State, and Citizen by Sandra F. Joireman,Sandra Fullerton Joireman Pdf

In Church, State, and Citizen , Sandra F. Joireman has gathered political scientists to examine the relationship between religion and politics as seen from within seven Christian traditions: Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Anglican, Evangelical and Pentecostal. In each chapter the historical and theological foundations of the tradition are described along with the beliefs regarding the appropriate role of the state and citizen. --from publisher description

Author : Angela Denker
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506482507

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Red State Christians by Angela Denker Pdf

"Journalist Angela Denker traveled for one year across the United States, meeting the evangelical Christian voters who supported the Trump presidency to understand how their voting bloc continues to influence conservative politics. Winner of a 2019 Foreword INDIES Award Silver Medal, this expanded paperback edition of Red State Christians includes a new introduction that explores the 2020 election, the transfer of power, and the subsequent insurrection at the United States Capitol"--Back cover.

Author : Charles Freeman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446419243

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AD 381 by Charles Freeman Pdf

In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debate about the nature of the Godhead; all other interpretations were now declared heretical. Moreover, for the first time in a thousand years of Greco-Roman civilization free thought was unambiguously suppressed. Yet surprisingly this political revolution, intended to bring inner cohesion to an empire under threat from the outside, has been airbrushed from the historical record. Instead, it has been claimed that the Christian Church had reached a consensus on the Trinity which was promulgated at the Council of Constantinople in AD 381. In this groundbreaking new book, Freeman argues that Theodosius's edict and the subsequent suppression of paganism not only brought an end to the diversity of religious and philosophical beliefs throughout the empire but created numerous theological problems for the Church, which have remained unsolved. The year AD 381, Freeman concludes, marked 'a turning point which time forgot'.

Author : Hans Urs von Balthasar
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780898707885

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The Christian State of Life by Hans Urs von Balthasar Pdf

"The sole purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive meditation on the foundations and background of St. Ignatius' contemplation on the 'call of Christ', on the answer we must give if we want 'to give great proof of our love' and on the choice explicitly demanded of us: either to follow Christ our Lord to the 'first state of life, which is that of observing the commandments', of which he has given us an example by his obedience to his parents; or to follow him to 'the second state, which is that of evangelical perfection', of which he has given us an example by leaving his family 'to devote himself exclusively to the service of his eternal Father'. And this so that we can 'arrive at perfection' -- which is, of course, the perfection of Christian love -- 'in whatever state or way of life God our Lord may grant us to choose...The goal of our meditation is to understand why this act of choosing a 'state or way of life' 'within our Holy Mother, the hierarchical Church' is possible and necessary in the first place, and why there should be any either-or since both ways are capable of leading us to the same 'perfection of love', just as the same act, viewed from different perspectives, can be either absolute or relative." [Preface].

Author : Mark David Hall
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400211111

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Did America Have a Christian Founding? by Mark David Hall Pdf

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions. In 2010, David Mark Hall gave a lecture at the Heritage Foundation entitled "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" His balanced and thoughtful approach to this controversial question caused a sensation. C-SPAN televised his talk, and an essay based on it has been downloaded more than 300,000 times. In this book, Hall expands upon this essay, making the airtight case that America's Founders were not deists. He explains why and how the Founders' views are absolutely relevant today, showing that they did not create a "godless" Constitution; that even Jefferson and Madison did not want a high wall separating church and state; that most Founders believed the government should encourage Christianity; and that they embraced a robust understanding of religious liberty for biblical and theological reasons. This compelling and utterly persuasive book will convince skeptics and equip believers and conservatives to defend the idea that Christian thought was crucial to the nation's founding--and that this benefits all of us, whatever our faith (or lack of faith).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017769356

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The Shadow of Christianity; Or, the Genesis of the Christian State. A Treatise for the Times, by the Author of the Apocatastasis [i.e. Leonard Marsh]. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert P. Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501122293

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The End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones Pdf

"The founder and CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and columnist for the Atlantic describes how white Protestant Christians have declined in influence and power since the 1990s and explores the effect this has had on America, "--NoveList.

Author : Adrienne von Speyr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0898700442

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The Christian State of Life by Adrienne von Speyr Pdf

Author : Gregory A. Boyd
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310565918

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The Myth of a Christian Nation by Gregory A. Boyd Pdf

The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of the sword. Whenever the church has succeeded in gaining what most American evangelicals are now trying to get – political power – it has been disastrous both for the church and the culture. Whenever the church picks up the sword, it lays down the cross. The present activity of the religious right is destroying the heart and soul of the evangelical church and destroying its unique witness to the world. The church is to have a political voice, but we are to have it the way Jesus had it: by manifesting an alternative to the political, “power over,” way of doing life. We are to transform the world by being willing to suffer for others – exercising “power under,” not by getting our way in society – exercising “power over.”