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Sacred Liberty
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Author : Steven Waldman
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-05-07
Sacred Liberty written by Steven Waldman and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Religion categories.
Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation’s “greatest invention.” Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amidst the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Quakers, African slaves, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses. American leaders drove religious freedom forward--figures like James Madison, George Washington, the World War II presidents (Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower) and even George W. Bush. But the biggest heroes were the regular Americans – people like Mary Dyer, Marie Barnett and W.D. Mohammed -- who risked their lives or reputations by demanding to practice their faiths freely. Just as the documentary Eyes on the Prize captured the rich drama of the civil rights movement, Sacred Liberty brings to life the remarkable story of how America became one of the few nations in world history that has religious freedom, diversity and high levels of piety at the same time. Finally, Sacred Liberty provides a roadmap for how, in the face of modern threats to religious freedom, this great achievement can be preserved.
The Most Sacred Freedom
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Author : Will R. Jordan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Most Sacred Freedom written by Will R. Jordan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy categories.
The Most Sacred Freedom includes eight essays that were first presented at the 2014 A. V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, the seventh annual conference sponsored by Mercer University's Thomas C. and Ramona E. McDonald Center for America's Founding principles. Together, these essays explore the great principle of religious liberty by charting its development in the Western tradition and reconsidering its place at America's founding. The book begins with a comparison between the flood accounts in Genesis and the Mesopotamian Atra-Hasis and advances all the way to the 2014 Supreme Court case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. The intervening chapters examine the contributions of figures such as Emperor Julian, Roger Williams, Cecilius Calvert, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the American Founders. The major themes addressed include the theological and epistemological preconditions of religious liberty, the chief challenges to securing this liberty, the problematic but necessary role of religion in a free society, and the constitutional framework that has been handed down to us to help preserve this most sacred freedom. Book jacket.
The Sacred Rights Of Conscience
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Author : Daniel L. Dreisbach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Sacred Rights Of Conscience written by Daniel L. Dreisbach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
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.
The Sacred Fire Of Liberty
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Author : M. Sellers
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1998-09-14
The Sacred Fire Of Liberty written by M. Sellers and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-14 with Philosophy categories.
This book describes the origins of the concept of liberty in the legal and political thought of Rome, Italy, England, France and the United States of America. Professor Sellers traces the development of liberty and republican government over two centuries of European history, in association with liberal ideas. This study reveals republicanism as the parent of liberalism in modern law and politics, and demonstrates the continuing value of republican ideas in securing the liberty of contemporary states and their citizens.
A Sacred Thirst For Freedom
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Author : Frederick Douglass
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-10-15
A Sacred Thirst For Freedom written by Frederick Douglass and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-15 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Since childhood, Frederick had a sacred thirst for freedom. It was in his mind all the time and he questioned the rights of his master to own his actions and thoughts. But how to escape the bondage? It was a formidable task, but one he was willing to try. Will he succeed and by which method? All these questions plague him every night in the little cot where he slept. Until he came up with a plan and share it with some friends so they could join him. Oh, but what a surprise, when one of them snitch on them... A fatal blow. Even more deeply felt than the angry strikes from his master. It would be years before he could try to escape again. Will he succeed this time? Sacred Thirst for Liberty is a must-read. It will keep you guessing. Frederick writes with extraordinary passion and does not shy away to share his most personal feelings and thoughts. You will feel that you are experiencing slavery right along with him. A harrowing, dramatic story which belongs in every library.
The Sacred Cause Of Liberty
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Author : Nathan O. Hatch
language : en
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
Release Date : 1977-01-01
The Sacred Cause Of Liberty written by Nathan O. Hatch and has been published by New Haven : Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-01 with Clergy categories.
Liberty The God That Failed
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Author : Christopher A. Ferrara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03
Liberty The God That Failed written by Christopher A. Ferrara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with Philosophy categories.
What has gone wrong with the grand American experiment in "ordered liberty"? The liberal's answer is that America has failed to live up to its full promise of inclusiveness and equality--likely the result of corporate greed and white male ruling elites. The mainstream conservative or libertarian reply points to the Warren Court, the 1960s, or a loss of Constitutional rectitude. Christopher Ferrara, in Liberty, the God That Failed, offers an entirely different answer. In a counter-narrative of unique power and scope, he unmasks the order promised as a sham; the liberty guaranteed, a chimera. In his telling, the false god of a new political order--Liberty--was born in thought long before America's founding, and gained increasing devotion as it slowly amassed power during the first century of the nation's existence. Today it reveals its full might, as we bear the weight of its oppressive decrees, and experience the emptiness of the secular order it imposes upon us. The secular state has constructed a "myth of religious violence" to mask its own violent origins and ongoing displays of force. Ferrara destroys this myth with a relentless uncovering of truths hidden by both liberal and conservative/libertarian accounts of what has gone wrong. In this brilliant retelling of American history and political life, the author asks us to open our eyes to harsh realities, but also to the possibilities for a rightly ordered society and the true liberty that can still be ours.
Sacred Liberty
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Author : Gemma Betros
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2015-03-12
Sacred Liberty written by Gemma Betros and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-12 with History categories.
Sacred Liberty examines revolutionary France's efforts to force its 55,000 nuns from the religious life. It looks at why the National Assembly wanted to suppress France's convents and how successful it was in doing this. In this powerful new study, Gemma Betros confronts one of the enduring problems of the Revolution: the breakdown of relations between church and state and its implications for the survival of each. Focusing on the city of Paris, this book traces the suppression of convents from the eve of the Revolution in 1789 until the end of Napoleonic rule in 1815. Bringing together a range of primary source material, including police reports, letters and trial records, it analyses the motives of the state while uncovering the startlingly diverse thoughts and actions of the women affected. Sacred Liberty reveals the complex ways in which the French Revolution used female religious communities in its battle against the Catholic Church and shows how, with the reinstatement of convents under Napoleon, their place in the modern state was reshaped in a way that is still visible today. It is a text of great importance to anyone interested in the French Revolution, the history of women or the modern history of religion in Europe.
Sacred Scripture Sacred War
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Author : James P. Byrd
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-09
Sacred Scripture Sacred War written by James P. Byrd and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09 with History categories.
Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon. God Almighty, with all the powers of heaven, are on our side, Sherwood said, voicing a sacred justification for war that Americans would invoke repeatedly throughout the struggle for independence. In Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, James Byrd offers the first comprehensive analysis of how American revolutionaries defended their patriotic convictions through scripture. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the American Revolution. Indeed, many colonists saw the Bible as primarily a book about war. They viewed God as not merely sanctioning violence but actively participating in combat, playing a decisive role on the battlefield. When war came, preachers and patriots alike turned to scripture not only for solace but for exhortations to fight. Such scripture helped amateur soldiers overcome their natural aversion to killing, conferred on those who died for the Revolution the halo of martyrdom, and gave Americans a sense of the divine providence of their cause. Many histories of the Revolution have noted the connection between religion and war, but Sacred Scripture, Sacred War is the first to provide a detailed analysis of specific biblical texts and how they were used, especially in making the patriotic case for war. Combing through more than 500 wartime sources, which include more than 17,000 biblical citations, Byrd shows precisely how the Bible shaped American war, and how war in turn shaped Americans' view of the Bible. Brilliantly researched and cogently argued, Sacred Scripture, Sacred War sheds new light on the American Revolution.
The Sacred Fire Of Liberty
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Author : Lance Banning
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1995
The Sacred Fire Of Liberty written by Lance Banning and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Lance Banning's powerful and persuasive reexamination of Madison's thought at the critical early and central stages of his career now changes that presumption, and provides a new base from which thinking about Madison and the Founding must start.