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Book Synopsis Sworn on the Altar of God by : Edwin S. Gaustad
Download or read book Sworn on the Altar of God written by Edwin S. Gaustad and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography, part of the acclaimed Library of Religious Biography, treats the religious significance of Thomas Jefferson, first by examining Jefferson's steady dedication to the cause of religious liberty, and second, by exploring Jefferson's private effort to reform the nature of religion.
Book Synopsis I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God by : Thomas Jefferson
Download or read book I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God ... by : Thomas Jefferson
Download or read book I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God ... written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality by : David Peddle
Download or read book The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality written by David Peddle and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The metaphor of a “wall of separation” between church and state obscures the substantial connection that exists between the Christian religion and American liberalism. The central thesis of this work challenges the legitimacy of this metaphor as it appears in Supreme Court decisions and in the thought of the philosopher John Rawls. The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality provides a provocative interpretation of the nature of Christian and liberal principles, suggesting that the principles of individual freedom and equality were forged even within the conservative elements of Calvinism and Puritanism. Recognition of this substantial intellectual connection has the potential to help reshape our conception of the separation of church and state by tempering the opposition between religious and political concepts and values. The purpose of The Religious Origins of American Freedom and Equality then, is to contribute to an understanding of public reason that is more open to the contributions of religious perspectives. The work attempts to show how religious doctrines, currently obscured by historical context and hermeneutical dogmatism, have nonetheless played a formative role in the evolution of the freedom and equality that is foundational to contemporary liberalism. Understanding the genesis of the concepts of freedom and equality tempers the conceptual opposition between church and state and allows a clearer more inclusive interpretation of the nature of their separation. The originality of the work is fourfold: (1) the challenge its central thesis poses to dominant constructions of public reason, freedom, and equality; (2) the interdisciplinary method through which it brings the findings of a variety of disciplines to bear on a central issues in political philosophy; (3) the challenge it brings to the analytic and pragmatic approach of contemporary liberalism through its assertion of the importance of historical context to contemporary ideas; and (4) the degree to which it engages theology in its relation to contemporary questions.
Book Synopsis Religion and the American Presidency by : Gastón Espinosa
Download or read book Religion and the American Presidency written by Gastón Espinosa and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the idea that the mixing of religion and presidential politics is a new phenomenon. It explores how presidents have drawn on their religious upbringing, rhetoric, ideas, and beliefs to promote their domestic and foreign policies to the nation. This influence is evident in Washington's decision to add "so help me God" to the presidential oath, accusations by Adam's supporters that Jefferson was an infidel, Lincoln's biblical metaphors during the Civil War, and FDR's call to fight against Nazi totalitarianism on behalf of Judeo-Christian civilization. It is also apparent in Truman's support for Israel, Eisenhower's Cold War decision to add "In God We Trust" on American currency, the debate over JFK's Catholicism, Jimmy Carter's born-again Christianity, Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech, Clinton's public repentance, and George W. Bush's "crusade" against Islamic terrorists. This volume explores these issues of religion and power in the presidencies of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush through scholarly interpretations, primary sources, and illustrations.
Book Synopsis Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an by : Denise Spellberg
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an written by Denise Spellberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history, and travel, taking extensive notes on Islam as it relates to English common law. Jefferson sought to understand Islam notwithstanding his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment prevalent among his Protestant contemporaries in England and America. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. Based on groundbreaking research, Spellberg compellingly recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost among them, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims (then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society) to fashion out of what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson’s political foes would vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders’ ultimate judgment not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done. As popular suspicions about Islam persist and the numbers of American Muslim citizenry grow into the millions, Spellberg’s revelatory understanding of this radical notion of the Founders is more urgent than ever. Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an is a timely look at the ideals that existed at our country’s creation, and their fundamental implications for our present and future.
Book Synopsis The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense by : Emanuel Swedenborg
Download or read book The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacred Text, Secular Times by : Leonard Jay Greenspoon
Download or read book Sacred Text, Secular Times written by Leonard Jay Greenspoon and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 14 papers present a varied exploration of the ways in which the Hebrew Biblie has influenced the modern world, and the ways in which the modern world has influenced how we read and interpret Sacred Writ.
Book Synopsis Commentary on the Gospel according to Matthew by : James Morison
Download or read book Commentary on the Gospel according to Matthew written by James Morison and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Publications by : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme by : John Aubrey
Download or read book Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme written by John Aubrey and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Family Commentary on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark by :
Download or read book The Family Commentary on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matt.-John. 1834 written by William Jenks and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Matt.-John. 1834 by : William Jenks
Download or read book The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Matt.-John. 1834 written by William Jenks and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matthew-John written by William Jenks and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift by : Ron Miller
Download or read book Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift written by Ron Miller and published by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a Jewish teacher, healer, sage and mystic become the vehicle for so much hatred and harm directed against his own people? Dialogue is demanding and difficult. It is often painful. It entails deep listening, letting others define themselves and being willing to confront and transform deep-rooted prejudices in ourselves. It requires the courage to re-envision absolutely everything we tend to cherish and protect, and to relinquish our entrenched vainglorious ego attachments, our inflated sense of I, me and mine. This challenge to grow beyond tribalism, to approach others in a fair and reasonable way, is an essential step in our human evolution. from the Invitation to the Reader Judaism and Christianity have had a volatile relationship in their two-thousand-year history. Anger, rivalry, insensitivity, bloodshed and murder have marred the special connection these two Abrahamic faiths share. In the last several decades, scholars, activists, laypeople and clergy have attempted to expose and eliminate the struggles between Jews and Christians. This collaborative effort brings together the voices of Christian scholar Ron Miller and Jewish scholar Laura Bernstein to further explore the roots of anti-Semitism in Christian faith and scripture. In a probing interfaith dialogue, Miller and Bernstein trace the Jewish-Christian schism to its very source in the first book of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew. Illuminating the often misunderstood context of Matthew s gospel a persecuted Christian minority writing some sixty years after Jesus s death this examination of a foundational Christian text discerns the ways in which the Jewishness of Jesus was forgotten and Jews and Judaism became Christianity s foil. More important, it takes a renewed look at Matthew with contemporary retellings that present a new and better future of conciliation and compassion between the two faith traditions.
Download or read book The Altar of God written by Dr Wayne Rowe and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By looking into scripture, this book hopes to shed a clear picture of God's love, grace, and mercy toward man in the act of creation. The image depicted by the author is based upon scripture by using it to reveal what exactly is covered by God's boundless act of love. This book will also discuss the intricate details of God's altar for the sins of all mankind. Throughout the Old Testament, we are given examples that show the true character of God. The Bible also shows God's love for all mankind. God desires to draw us near to Him, to restore us to a place we were prior to the fall of man, to have fellowship with God, and to live eternally with God. By God's plan of redemption through His Son Jesus Christ, He would restore man back to Him, and to have fellowship with Him as it had first been intended. Man was predestined to again enter into fellowship with their Creator. There is a common ground in which all existence has in common: God spoke a beginning, and it was created.
