American Blasphemer
Author : John Matthew Gillen
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2020-04-09
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ISBN : 9781951937126
Author : John Matthew Gillen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2020-04-09
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ISBN : 9781951937126
Author : Eunice Marie Hoffman
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Blasphemy
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Author : David Sehat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 2011-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199793115
In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents. In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat provides an eye-opening history of religion in public life, overturning our most cherished myths. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government, which had limited authority. The Protestant moral establishment ruled on the state level. Using moral laws to uphold religious power, religious partisans enforced a moral and religious orthodoxy against Catholics, Jews, Mormons, agnostics, and others. Not until 1940 did the U.S. Supreme Court extend the First Amendment to the states. As the Supreme Court began to dismantle the connections between religion and government, Sehat argues, religious conservatives mobilized to maintain their power and began the culture wars of the last fifty years. To trace the rise and fall of this Protestant establishment, Sehat focuses on a series of dissenters--abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, socialist Eugene V. Debs, and many others. Shattering myths held by both the left and right, David Sehat forces us to rethink some of our most deeply held beliefs. By showing the bad history used on both sides, he denies partisans a safe refuge with the Founders.
Author : Nigel Farndale
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307717046
In the aftermath of a small plane crash that forced him to make a wrenching life-and-death choice, zoologist Daniel Kennedy confronts the fate of his great-grandfather during World War I and struggles to both prove himself and earn forgiveness. By the short-listed Whitbread Prize nominee of Hee-Haw.
Author : Joe Judkins
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
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ISBN : 9781612860923
Joe's life is divided into three primary time-lines, so far, each containing many sub-categories of highs and lows. The first time-line of thirty-two years was dominated with learning disabilities and challenges. The second time-line of eighteen years was an intellectual break through breaking the curse of his learning disabilities. The third time-line began at age fifty when GOD's grace saved his soul and then gave him a gift for writing, and he continues to give JESUS CHRIST all honor and glory. Joe was always a thinker which he realizes prepared him for writing, GOD's ultimate plan. He has had visitations from GOD which are throughout his writings and GOD talks with him often. He is Chancellor of [www.RaptureReadySeminary.com] and the author of several books. Joe says that JESUS CHRIST is exactly who HE says HE is. Joe asks, Are you ensnared within the mess of this world, or are you released from the grip and ready when JESUS calls? Joe says, "Don't give up because you have worth, importance, and you are loved."
Author : Herman Joseph Heuser
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : Marshall Cavendish Corporation
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,83 MB
Release : 2002-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761473640
A thirteen-volume set that presents an overview of all aspects of twentieth-century America and two volumes of primary sources.
Author : Anthony Comstock
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Child welfare
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Author : Robert Lynd
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : David Nash
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191614351
Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity. Investigating its appearance in speech, literature, popular publishing and the cinema, he disinters the likely motives and agendas of blasphemers themselves, as well as offering a glimpse of blasphemy's victims. In particular, he seeks to understand why this seemingly medieval offence has reappeared to become a distinctly modern presence in the West.