The Contested Public Square
Although, in its present form, this volume is understood to be “an introduction to Christian political thought,” it was intended to show that many of the nation's framers and founders wished for government to be based on natural moral law. That is, they were led to believe that American polity...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 708-710 |
| Review of: | The contested public square (Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, 2008) (Charles, J. Daryl)
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| Summary: | Although, in its present form, this volume is understood to be “an introduction to Christian political thought,” it was intended to show that many of the nation's framers and founders wished for government to be based on natural moral law. That is, they were led to believe that American polity was not to be created through enforcing Christianity by law. But in order to grasp what natural law meant for theists in the late eighteenth century, one needed, looking backward, to understand the evolution of Christian thought incrementally, the roots of which are found in Christianity's tumultuous encounter with classical Greco-Roman political philosophy during the first five centuries. |
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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/csq005 |