Is this God's country?: religion and democracy in America
'Is This God's Country?' presents an exploration by noted philosopher Robert Audi on the tensions between church and state in the democratic United States. He investigates how and why America separates church and state, and whether this separation benefits both religious and secular c...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford scholarship online
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| Further subjects: | B
Democracy
Religious aspects
B Religion and state (United States) B Politics & government B United States Religion B Church and state (United States) B Freedom Of Religion (United States) B Toleration (United States) B Democracy (United States) B Christianity (United States) B Politics and government |
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| Summary: | 'Is This God's Country?' presents an exploration by noted philosopher Robert Audi on the tensions between church and state in the democratic United States. He investigates how and why America separates church and state, and whether this separation benefits both religious and secular citizens. Audi then proposes standards for discussing and resolving church-state issues in education, business, and medicine, using a multitude of examples. He addresses the question whether America can be Christian - or religious at all - in a way that still integrates religious liberty with democratic law-making, and expands the common ground we would need in order to overcome the cultural fragmentation that besets America. "Our founding documents are one source of this idea-they certainly reinforce the idea that God has a special mission for America. "America the Beautiful," as the song calls it, is often conceived as a great representative of democracy, a citadel on a divinely blessed hill. The Declaration of Independence says we are "endowed by our Creator" with "unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1864 announces, "It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year... and vouchsafing to us in His mercy many and signal victories over the enemy, who is of our own household." In line with the divine endowment view, our currency displays "In God We Trust," and the Pledge of Allegiance calls us "one nation, under God." Many Americans also have a sense of America as having a mission, a kind of evangelism for democracy that is reminiscent of the Biblical commandment to make disciples of all nations. Our "founders"-authors of the Declaration and the Constitution-were mainly theists, and they considered the Bible the paradigm of divinely inspired writing and America the exemplar of an enduring union of Biblical ideals and democratic practices"-- |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2024. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 3, 2023) |
| ISBN: | 0197682693 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197682661.001.0001 |