TY - BOOK AU - Abbott,Lyman AU - Aquinas,Thomas AU - Augustine AU - Bellah,Robert N. AU - Calvin,John AU - Corbett,Julia M. AU - Davison Hunter,James AU - Erasmus AU - Falwell,Jerry AU - Geyer,Alan AU - Glazer,Nathan AU - Glenn,Gary D. AU - Goldberg,George AU - Hulett,Louisa S. AU - John,Paul AU - Kelley,Dean M. AU - Krauthammer,Charles AU - Langan,John AU - Levy,Leonard W. AU - Lewis,C.S. AU - Luther,Martin AU - Marshall,William P. AU - McConnell,Michael W. AU - Neuhaus,Richard John AU - Niebuhr,Reinhold AU - O’Higgins,Kevin P. AU - Pfeffer,Leo AU - Ratzinger,Joseph AU - Reichley,A.James AU - Segundo,Juan Luis AU - Simons,Menno AU - Turner Johnson,James AU - Weber,Paul J. AU - Wilcox,Clyde AU - Yoder,John Howard TI - Christianity and Modern Politics SN - 9783110134629 PY - 2021///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Christentum KW - Politik KW - USA KW - RELIGION / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. On Christianity, Civil Religion, and Politics --; Introductory Comments --; On Politics and Power (excerpts) --; Mere Christianity --; Civil Religion in America --; II. The Free Exercise of Religion --; Introductory Comments --; The Origins and Historical Understanding of Free Exercise of Religion --; The Case Against the Constitutionally Compelled Free Exercise Exemption --; III. God and Government: The Establishment Clause --; Introductory Comments --; Forgotten Purposes of the First Amendment Religion Clauses --; The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment --; IV. Religion Clauses and Supreme Court Cases --; Introductory Comments --; Church, State, and the Constitution --; Why 'Separation' is not the Key to Church-State Relations --; Statism, not Separatism, is the Problem --; Freedom and/or Separation: The Constitutional Dilemma of the First Amendment --; Strict Neutrality: The Next Step in First Amendment Development? --; V. Secular Humanism as Religion: The Great Debate --; Introductory Comments --; The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America --; America's Fourth Faith: A Sociological Perspective on Secular Humanism --; The Religion of Secular Humanism: A Judicial Myth --; VI. The Rise of Fundamentalism --; Introductory Comments --; Pietist Politics --; The Fundamentalist Phenomenon --; The Christian Right in Twentieth Century America: Continuity and Change --; The New Puritanism: We Must Say 'No' Again --; Fundamentalism --; VII. War, Peace, and Pacifism --; Introductory Comments --; Various Works --; Summa Theologica --; Whether Soldiers, Too, Can Be Saved --; Institutes of the Christian Religion --; On Beginning War --; Reply to False Accusations --; Why the Christian Church is not Pacifist --; Christianity and Social Problems --; In Defense of Creation --; On Nuclear Morality --; The Use of Force: A Justified Response --; Just Wars and the Burdens of History --; An Imperfectly Just War: Part of the Uncertainty is Factual --; Just War Tradition: Is It Credible? --; VIII. Liberation Theology --; Introductory Comments --; On Liberation Theology (excerpts) --; Two Theologies of Liberation --; Instruction on Certain Aspects of the 'Theology of Liberation' --; Centesimus Annus --; Liberation Theology and the 'New World Order' --; Selected Readings --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110847710 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110847710 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110847710/original ER -