The Established Church

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1782395040
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Church written by Roger Scruton and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church as its true spiritual guardian. Here, Scruton argues that the Anglican Church is the forlorn trustee of an architectural and artistic inheritance that remains one of the treasures of European civilization. He contends that it is a still point in the centre of English culture and that its defining texts, the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer are the sources from which much of our national identity derives. At once an elegy to a vanishing world and a clarion call to recognize Anglicanism's continuing relevance, Our Church is a graceful and persuasive book.

Author : Mark Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567187632
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Established Church written by Mark Chapman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a definitive account of the recent history and theology of the establishment of the Church of England. Written in an accessible style and at the same time rooted in serious scholarship, it offers a range of views and opinions as well as an awareness of contemporary political and social problems. It asks a number of penetrating questions, including the key issue of the extent to which churches, and particularly the Church of England, can be protected from equality legislation, while at the same time expecting to have special political and social privileges. This issue relates to the thorny problems of the reform of the House of Lords, and even to the future of the Monarchy. While there is no effort to impose a particular agenda or solution, the book is nevertheless often provocative and suggests a number of ways forward for establishment. It is intended as a lively contribution to an often-overlooked debate, which has nevertheless become increasingly important in the multi-cultural context of contemporary Britain.

Author : Williston Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Christian Church written by Williston Walker and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Ledewitz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253001366
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism written by Bruce Ledewitz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1947, the Supreme Court has promised government neutrality toward religion, but in a nation whose motto is "In God We Trust" and which pledges allegiance to "One Nation under God," the public square is anything but neutral -- a paradox not lost on a rapidly secularizing America and a point of contention among those who identify all expressions of religion by government as threats to a free society. Yeshiva student turned secularist, Bruce Ledewitz seeks common ground for believers and nonbelievers regarding the law of church and state. He argues that allowing government to promote higher law values through the use of religious imagery would resolve the current impasse in the interpretation of the Establishment Clause. It would offer secularism an escape from its current tendency toward relativism in its dismissal of all that religion represents and encourage a deepening of the expression of meaning in the public square without compromising secular conceptions of government.

Author : Forrest Church
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080707747X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Separation of Church and State written by Forrest Church and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a primer of essential writings about one of the cornerstones of our democracy by the original authors of the Constitution, edited by preeminant liberal theologian Forrest Church. Americans will never stop debating the question of church-state separation, and such debates invariably lead back to the nation’s beginnings and the founders’ intent. The Separation of Church and State presents a basic collection of the founders’ teachings on this topic. This concise primer gets past the rhetoric that surrounds the current debate, placing the founders’ vivid writings on religious liberty in historical perspective. Edited and with running commentary by Forrest Church, this important collection informs anyone curious about the original blueprint for our country and its government.

Author : Sidney Z. Ehler
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780819601896
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Church and State Through the Centuries written by Sidney Z. Ehler and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1967 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Barton
Publisher : Wallbuilder Press
ISBN 13 : 9781932225419
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Separation of Church & State written by David Barton and published by Wallbuilder Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution is discussed in regard to the intent of the Founding Fathers.

Author : Church Institution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The value of the established church to the nation written by Church Institution and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George MacLaren Brydon
Publisher : Richmond, Va. : Richmond Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Established Church in Virginia and the Revolution written by George MacLaren Brydon and published by Richmond, Va. : Richmond Press. This book was released on 1930 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Spencer Langton Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the Established Church written by Spencer Langton Holland and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: