Christianity and American Democracy
Christianity and democracy achieved an American relationship that deserves acclaim for the rare tolerance it engendered, for the sanctity religion lent to democracy's striving, for the singular morality by which a myriad of chiefly Christian sects legitimized the polity, for preserving the God-...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 542-543 |
| Review of: | Christianity and American Democracy (Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2007) (Sherratt, Timothy)
Christianity and American democracy (Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2007) (Sherratt, Timothy) Christianity and American democracy (Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2007) (Sherratt, Timothy) Christianity and American democracy (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2007) (Sherratt, Timothy) |
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| Summary: | Christianity and democracy achieved an American relationship that deserves acclaim for the rare tolerance it engendered, for the sanctity religion lent to democracy's striving, for the singular morality by which a myriad of chiefly Christian sects legitimized the polity, for preserving the God-given grandeur of the human being, and for recognizing democratic equality as the divinely inspired thrust in human history. This relationship, dubbed by Professor Heclo “The Great Denouement” secured individual freedom of religious conscience, and was preserved in the separate structures Christianity and democracy inhabited. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp087 |
