The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics and the First Amendment
When I make presentations on church-state relations, usually to church groups, I am frequently asked, given that I am a Christian and an ordained minister, why I argue so strenuously for the separation of church and state. Now, in addition to my personal answer, I can refer this book to those for wh...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Review |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Ano: 2013, Volume: 55, Número: 2, Páginas: 351-353 |
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| Resumo: | When I make presentations on church-state relations, usually to church groups, I am frequently asked, given that I am a Christian and an ordained minister, why I argue so strenuously for the separation of church and state. Now, in addition to my personal answer, I can refer this book to those for whom being a Christian and a separationist “does not compute.”, I have no idea whether Dennis Goldford, a professor of politics at Drake University, is a Christian or not; he is appropriately silent about his own religious sensibilities. But, as a constitutional theorist, he has written a convincing apology for the strict separationist interpretation of the religion clauses of the First Amendment that supports the kind of testimony to which I referred. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst006 |