The end of secularism
Introduction -- Beginning from my story -- Secularism as an academic subject -- Understanding secularism -- Previewing the path of the argument against secularism -- The early church and the empire -- The rise of Christianity and the challenge of power -- From persecuted minority to rule by the Lord...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wheaton, Ill.
Crossway
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Edition: | 1. print. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Secularization
B USA / State / Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Church and state
United States
B Christianity and politics United States B Christianity and politics B Church and state B Religion And Politics B Secularism |
| Summary: | Introduction -- Beginning from my story -- Secularism as an academic subject -- Understanding secularism -- Previewing the path of the argument against secularism -- The early church and the empire -- The rise of Christianity and the challenge of power -- From persecuted minority to rule by the Lord's man -- The religion of the state, but not the state's religion -- Augustine's state : necessary evil or true justice -- By what right, by what power? -- The surprising return of the classical world -- New winds blowing : two reformers and a schemer -- Calvin -- Luther -- Machiavelli -- Reformation's wake : uneasy pluralism and social contracts -- The social contract -- Hobbes -- Locke -- Rousseau -- American story : religious expatriates, a new world, and awakening -- The Puritan community -- Roger Williams -- Jonathan Edwards, new lights, old lights -- American awakening -- France : a different kind of revolution -- To topple throne and altar -- Dividing loyalties -- Goddess reason and the Supreme Being -- Reconciliation and surging nationalism -- Analyzing the evolution of church, state, and secularism -- What is the state? -- What is the church? -- Whence comes the power? -- Secularism emerging through deism -- The American model, the American controversy -- What do you mean by Enlightenment? -- When it was harder to get on the church rolls -- Awakening to independence -- Politics and religion -- Against the Christian nation hypothesis -- A better understanding -- Robert Palmer's contribution -- Religion clause deconstruction and re-orientation -- What about the no religious test clause? -- More important, what about the Fourteenth Amendment? -- American Christianity : triumph and trial -- Powerful Protestantism -- And the fall ... -- The spiritual price of slavery -- The apparent denouement : the fundamentalist-modernist controversy and the public embarrassment of the Monkey Trial -- Comeback/re-engagement -- The old establishment : mainline fade-out -- Secularism : a failed strategy for social peace -- The rise and fall of secularization theory -- Secularization theory and politics -- A poor strategy for common ground -- Secularism and postmodernity -- The secular rawlsian defense -- Purpose-driven secularism -- Secularists and their revolution -- The under-acknowledged secularist demographic -- The non-uniqueness of theocratic danger -- System v. lifeworld -- The department of God -- Christian self-interest and lessons learned -- The cautionary tale of Sweden -- Separation of church and state versus secularism -- The legend of warfare between science and religion -- Presenting warfare between science and religion -- The success of a legend -- Science and the early church -- Science and religion in the dark ages -- Professionalizers of science in the victorian era -- Darwin in America -- The knowledge situation -- Appreciating science -- Limitations of science -- Science, ethics, being human -- Who owns science? -- Science, secularism, politics -- Secularists sit one out in the Bible belt -- Alabama, Jesus, and the tax code -- Hamill's argument -- The governor, the churches, and the Christian Coalition -- Aftermath -- Application |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1433506548 |