Author: John Witte, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107184754
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.
Author: John Witte, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107184754
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.
Author: Ann W. Duncan
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780275993696
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Provides crucial insight into the controversies surrounding issues surrounding the separation of church and state.
Author: John Witte, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316884902
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While applauding modern sexual freedoms, John Witte, Jr also defends the traditional Western teaching that the marital family is an essential cradle of conscience, chrysalis of care, and cornerstone of ordered liberty. He thus urges churches, states, and other social institutions to protect and promote the marital family. He encourages reticent churches to embrace the rights of women and children, as Christians have long taught, and encourages modern states to promote responsible sexual freedom and family relations, as liberals have long said. He counsels modern churches and states to share in family law governance, and to resist recent efforts to privatize, abolish, or radically expand the marital family sphere. Witte also invites fellow citizens to end their bitter battles over same-sex marriage and tend to the vast family field that urgently needs concerted attention and action.
Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349232041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
`A very effective survey of an important theme on British political and social history...' - Andrew Chandler, Midland History. `This book effectively discharges its proclaimed purpose...a sound, successful and informative survey.' - Ian Christie, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. `The volume provides a balanced and useful overview of the latest scholarship on an important period in church history...' - Carla H. Hay, Albion `A useful and balanced survey of the condition of the Established Church at the accession of George III ... for anyone seeking a straightforward up-to-date survey, this is the book to begin with ... a very useful book...' - John Guy, The Journal of Welsh Religious History. In this wide-ranging book, William Gibson examines the principal themes in the developing relationship between the churches, the state and society between 1760 and 1850. Among other issues this book examines the involvement of the Church of England in Politics, the development of a clerical profession, the work of the bishops and clergy, the economic position of the church, the Church's reaction to the French and American Revolutions, the exercise of Church Patronage by premiers, the development of Church parties, the growth of Toleration, the reaction of the churches to industrialisation, the Halevy debate, the reform of the church after 1830, the development of Nonconformity and the state of religion and social groups in 1850.
Author: Ann W. Duncan
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 157356754X
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Provides crucial insight into the controversies surrounding issues surrounding the separation of church and state.
Author: C. Truett Baker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453504451
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Church-State Cooperation Without Domination os a historical review highlighting the antecedents leading up to present day church-state relations in the United States. Successful models of cooperation between government and faith-based agencies are described with the final chapter suggesting a new model for church-state relations that protects religious freedom while preserving the principle of limited government involvement with religion. It isn't a question of if or should government and religion mix. They already do, but there is little consensus on how to balance separation and cooperation. This book addresses those issues.
Author: Zsolt Enyedi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135761418
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This volume represents an attempt in integrating a wide range of theoretically relevant issues into the identification and analysis of church-state patterns. Each chapter focuses on the analysis of a particular theme and its role in shaping, and/or being shaped by, church-state relations.
Author: P. C. Kemeny
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830874747
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Abortion. Physician-assisted suicide. Same-sex marriages. Embryonic stem-cell research. Poverty. Crime. What is a faithful Christian response? The God of the Bible is unquestionably a God of justice. Yet Christians have had their differences as to how human government and the church should bring about a just social order. Although Christians share many deep and significant theological convictions, differences that threaten to divide them have often surrounded the matter of how the church collectively and Christians individually ought to engage the public square. What is the mission of the church? What is the purpose of human government? How ought they to be related to each other? How should social injustice be redressed? The five noted contributors to this volume answer these questions from within their distinctive Christian theological traditions, as well as responding to the other four positions. Through the presentations and ensuing dialogue we come to see more clearly what the differences are, where their positions overlap and why they diverge. The contributors and the positions taken include Clarke E. Cochran: A Catholic Perspective Derek H. Davis: A Classical Separation Perspective Ronald J. Sider: An Anabaptist Perspective Corwin F. Smidt: A Principled Pluralist Perspective J. Philip Wogaman: A Social Justice Perspective This book will be instructive for anyone seeking to grasp the major Christian alternatives and desiring to pursue a faithful corporate and individual response to the social issues that face us.
Author: Lavinia Stan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199714126
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu examine the relationship between religion and politics in ten former communist Eastern European countries. Contrary to widespread theories of increasing secularization, Stan and Turcescu argue that in most of these countries, the populations have shown themselves to remain religious even as they embrace modernization and democratization. Church-state relations in the new EU member states can be seen in political representation for church leaders, governmental subsidies, registration of religions by the state, and religious instruction in public schools. Stan and Turcescu outline three major models: the Czech church-state separation model, in which religion is private and the government secular; the pluralist model of Hungary, Bulgaria and Latvia, which views society as a group of complementary but autonomous spheres - for example, education, the family, and religion - each of which is worthy of recognition and support from the state; and the dominant religion model that exists in Poland, Romania, Estonia, and Lithuania, in which the government maintains informal ties to the religious majority. Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe offers critical tools for understanding church-state relations in an increasingly modern and democratic Eastern Europe.
Author: David Lyon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802082138
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The contributors consider how Canada's religious experience is distinctive in the modern world, somewhere between the largely secularized Europe and the relatively religious United States.
