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Tradition in the Public Square

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802830722
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Tradition in the Public Square by : David Novak

Download or read book Tradition in the Public Square written by David Novak and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition in the Public Square collects key essays by David Novak, one of the world's leading contemporary Jewish thinkers. Novak's insightful writings in this reader address the inextricable relationship between philosophical and theological matters and present the implications of his philosophical theology for social ethics and theo-politics. "One of the marks -- perhaps the most important mark -- of a great thinker is the ability to respond to the conditions and problems of one's time by changing the terms of the conversation. By this standard, David Novak ranks as one of the great American theologians of our time. His work, a response to the primary issue confronting modern Judaism -- namely, what it means to be a part of Western culture yet separate from its secularized form of life -- has helped to make Jewish theology and philosophy thriving fields in North American university life." -- from the introduction

Secret Faith in the Public Square

Author : Jonathan Malesic
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1587432269
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Secret Faith in the Public Square written by Jonathan Malesic and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocatively argues that concealing Christian identity in American public life is the best way to maintain faithful witness and integrity.

The Naked Public Square

Author : Richard John Neuhaus
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802800800
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis The Naked Public Square by : Richard John Neuhaus

Download or read book The Naked Public Square written by Richard John Neuhaus and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underlying the many crises in American life, writes Richard John Neuhaus, is a crisis of faith. It is not enough that more people should believe or that those who believe should believe more strongly. Rather, the faith of persons and communities must be more compellingly related to the public arena. "The naked public square"--which results from the exclusion of popular values from the public forum--will almost certainly result in the death of democracy. The great challenge, says Neuhaus, is the reconstruction of a public philosophy that can undergird American life and America's ambiguous place in the world. To be truly democratic and to endure, such a public philosophy must be grounded in values that are based on Judeo-Christian religion. The remedy begins with recognizing that democratic theory and practice, which have in the past often been indifferent or hostile to religion, must now be legitimated in terms compatible with biblical faith. Neuhaus explores the strengths and weaknesses of various sectors of American religion in pursuing this task of critical legitimation. Arguing that America is now engaged in an historic moment of testing, he draws upon Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish thinkers who have in other moments of testing seen that the stakes are very high--for America, for the promise of democratic freedom elsewhere, and possibly for God's purpose in the world. An honest analysis of the situation, says Neuhaus, shatters false polarizations between left and right, liberal and conservative. In a democratic culture, the believer's respect for nonbelievers is not a compromise but a requirement of the believer's faith. Similarly, the democratic rights of those outside the communities of religious faith can be assured only by the inclusion of religiously-grounded values in the common life. The Naked Public Square does not offer yet another partisan program for political of social change. Rather, it offers a deeply disturbing, but finally hopeful, examination of Abraham Lincoln's century-old question--whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

Religion in the Public Square

Author : James M. Patterson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812250982
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Public Square written by James M. Patterson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell differed profoundly on issues of theology and politics, but they shared an approach to public ministry that aimed directly at changing how Americans understood the nature and purpose of their country. From the 1930s through the 1950s, Sheen was an early adopter of paperbacks, radio, and television to condemn totalitarian ideologies and to defend American Catholicism against Protestant accusations of divided loyalty. During the 1950s and 1960s, King staged demonstrations and boycotts that drew the mass media to him. The attention provided him the platform to preach Christian love as a political foundation in direct opposition to white supremacy. Falwell started his own church, which he developed into a mass media empire. He then leveraged it during the late 1970s through the 1980s to influence the Republican Party by exhorting his audience to not only ally with religious conservatives around issues of abortion and the traditional family but also to vote accordingly. Sheen, King, and Falwell were so successful in popularizing their theological ideas that they won prestigious awards, had access to presidents, and witnessed the results of their labors. However, Patterson argues that Falwell's efforts broke with the longstanding refusal of religious public figures to participate directly in partisan affairs and thereby catalyzed the process of politicizing religion that undermined the Judeo-Christian consensus that formed the foundation of American politics.

Evangelicals in the Public Square

Author : J. Budziszewski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evangelicals in the Public Square written by J. Budziszewski and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, J. Budziszewski examines evangelical political thought over the past fifty years through four key figures--Carl F. H. Henry, Abraham Kuyper, Francis Schaeffer, and John Howard Yoder--to argue that, in addition to Scripture, the evangelical political movement should be informed by the tradition of natural law. David L. Weeks (Azusa Pacific University) responds on Henry, William Edgar (Westminster Seminary) responds to the Schaeffer section, John Bolt (Calvin Seminary) comments on Kuyper, and Ashley Woodiwiss (Wheaton College) offers remarks on the Yoder portion. Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago) provides the afterword, summarizing the dialogue and offering her own observations. In addition, the book includes an introduction by Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

American Catholics, American Culture

Author : Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742531611
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (316 download)

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Book Synopsis American Catholics, American Culture by : Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

Download or read book American Catholics, American Culture written by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policymakers and politicians address the most critical issues facing the Catholic Church in the United States.

Muslims' Place in the American Public Square

Author : Zahid Hussain Bukhari
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759106130
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Muslims' Place in the American Public Square by : Zahid Hussain Bukhari

Download or read book Muslims' Place in the American Public Square written by Zahid Hussain Bukhari and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first volume from the Muslims in the American Public Square research project, gives theoretical and demographic portraits of Muslims in the American civil landscape.

Great Public Squares

Author : Robert F. Gatje
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393731731
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Book Synopsis Great Public Squares by : Robert F. Gatje

Download or read book Great Public Squares written by Robert F. Gatje and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world, analyzed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison.

The Public Square Project

Author : Peter Lewis
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522878288
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Public Square Project written by Peter Lewis and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western democracy has always been anchored by the idea of a public space where people gather to share ideas, mediate difference and make sense of the world. When Facebook blocked Australian users from viewing or sharing news in 2021, it sounded the alarm worldwide on our growing reliance on global tech companies to fulfil this critical role in a digital world. Facebook's hostile act, constituting a very real threat to participatory democracy, was a direct response to government attempts to regulate Big Tech's advertising monopoly and to mediate its impact on public interest journalism. The conflict sparked a new sense of urgency around the growing movement to imagine alternative digital spaces that operate in the public interest rather than simply for a commercial bottom line. Can we create sustainable media models to help us tackle society's problems? Can we engender a civic platform built on facts and civility? Can we control the power of our data and use it to promote the common good? The Public Square Project draws together leading tech scholars, industry experts, writers and activists to chart a path towards a public square worthy of the name.

Faith in the Public Square

Author : Robert D. Cornwall
Publisher : Energion Publications
ISBN 13 : 1938434420
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Faith in the Public Square written by Robert D. Cornwall and published by Energion Publications. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a newspaper editor gives his primary editorial slot on Sundays to a pastor? In the case of Bob Cornwall, a pastor in Troy, Michigan, the result is a series of relevant, interesting, and challenging essays that go well beyond the local scene while still managing to be relevant to Americans in their local situation. Now extensively revised and organized as to theme, these essays form a coherent statement of progressive Christianity at work in the public square. At the same time they are seasoned with a look at how the public square influences the spiritual life of a Christian living in mid-America. The 52 essays in this collection go well beyond one place and time. You will find yourself, your community, your state, your nation, and your world in each. Can a person of faith be involved in the public square with integrity? Is public policy made better by this action? Can faith remain whole and genuine following the encounter? Read these essays to discover the answers, and perhaps find a new optimism for the future as you do. Anyone can benefit, but pastors and church leaders will find help in demonstrating their faith in the public square.

Respecting Life

Author : Neil Messer
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334047927
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Respecting Life written by Neil Messer and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioethical issues are rarely out of view in Western societies. New developments in areas such as human embryology continually raise new ethical questions, while more familiar issues frequently reappear in public debate. These are issues of central concern for Christians and for a wider public, because they raise questions about the value of life, the meaning of suffering and death and humanity’s place in the natural world.

The Law of Church and State in the Supreme Court Revisited

Author : David M. Ackerman
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781594546426
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Church and State in the Supreme Court Revisited written by David M. Ackerman and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religion clauses of the First Amendment provide that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...." In modern times the Supreme Court has frequently construes these clauses to create, in Thomas Jefferson's oft-quoted metaphor, a "wall of separation between church and state". The Court's decisions have precipitated substantial opposition and, in particularly since the election of Ronald Reagan to the Presidency in 1980, a concerted and partly successful effort to change its separatist constructions of the religion clauses. This volume summarises the doctrinal debates and shifts on the religion clauses that have occurred on the Court during this period. It summarises and examines as well the legal effect of each of the 56 decisions the Court has handed down concerning church and state since 1980.

The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature

Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253329837
Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature written by William H. Nienhauser and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published." --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.

A Place for Us

Author : Benjamin R. Barber
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080907656X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Place for Us written by Benjamin R. Barber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our crowded, noisy world—too many people, too much crime, too many wars, not enough time—it seems almost impossible to locate and preserve the common ground where a civil society might flourish. Whatever happened to the civic virtue and community life that nourished true democracy? In this provocative, hard-hitting book, political scientist Benjamin Barber tackles these questions head-on and, in answering them, retrieves the ideals of "civil society" from the nostalgists who want to re-create old-fashioned (and discriminatory) small communities and from the free-marketeers who associate it with unfettered commercial activity. Commentators have been making a fashion of civil society, but they tend to mean many different things by the phrase: this bracingly clear book shows how diverse the various notions are and how best to think about them. Barber proposes practical strategies for making civil society real, for civilizing public discourse and promoting civic debate, and for affirming values beyond those of work and leisure, commerce and bureaucracy.

Star Wars in the Public Square

Author : Derek R. Sweet
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477644
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Star Wars in the Public Square written by Derek R. Sweet and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative science fiction, with its underlying socio-political dialogue, represents an important intersection of popular culture and public discourse. As a pop culture text, the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars offers critical commentary on contemporary issues, marking a moment of interplay whereby author and audience come together in what Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin called collaborative meaning making. This book critically examines the series as a voice in the political dialogues concerning human cloning, torture, just war theory, peace and drone warfare.

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V

Author : Mark P. Hutchinson
Publisher : Oxford History of Protestant D
ISBN 13 : 0198702256
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V written by Mark P. Hutchinson and published by Oxford History of Protestant D. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The-five volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in Britain and Ireland as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and Royal Supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond Britain and Ireland--and also analyses newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier British and Irish dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent of ecclesiastical organizations. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V follows the spatial, cultural, and intellectual changes in dissenting identity and practice in the twentieth century, as these once European traditions globalized. While in Europe dissent was often against the religious state, dissent in a globalizing world could redefine itself against colonialism or other secular and religious monopolies. The contributors trace the encounters of dissenting Protestant traditions with modernity and globalization; changing imperial politics; challenges to biblical, denominational, and pastoral authority; local cultures and languages; and some of the century's major themes, such as race and gender, new technologies, and organizational change. In so doing, they identify a vast array of local and globalizing illustrations which will enliven conversations about the role of religion, and in particular Christianity.

Carryin' On

Author : R. Scott Brunner
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 1588360288
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Carryin' On written by R. Scott Brunner and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-07-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat Conroy said that R. Scott Brunner’s Due South “delivers the goods and delivers them Southern fried”; Rick Bragg said that Brunner “writes like people down here talk, with beauty.” Carryin’ On more than delivers on the promise of its predecessor, with more of the disarming and hilarious insights that made Due South an instant classic. Here are the essays like “Common Is as Common Does” (what kind of behavior is just plain tacky, and what isn’t), “Tastes Like Summer” (a beautiful meditation on bean poles), “Real Southern Places” (a wry look at Steve Wynn’s attempt to create a southern resort), “Paschal’s” (a paean to a haven of classic southern culinary comfort — in the middle of the Atlanta airport), and “The Last Time I Saw Parrish (a fond ode to his grandparent’s Alabama hometown). Carryin’ On celebrates culture, the food, the eccentricities, the habits, the language, the spirit, the talk — the overall carryin’ on that makes the American South a magical place.