RT Article
T1 The Idea of Covenant and American Democracy
JF Church history
VO 23
SP 126
OP 135
A1 Niebuhr, Richard R. 1926-2017
LA English
YR 1954
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/596366183
AB Every effort to deal with the history of ideas is beset by hazards. Semantic traps are strewn along the way of the inquirer; such words as democracy, liberty, justice, etc., point to different concepts or varying complexes of concepts as they are used in different periods of history and by different men. The unuttered and frequently unacknowledged presuppositions of those who employ them also vary; and since meaning largely depends on context the difficulties of understanding what is meant are increased by the difficulty of ascertaining what is at the back of the minds.
K1 USA/United States of America/Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
K1 Demokratie
K1 Verhältnis Staat-Kirche
K1 USA/United States of America
K1 Democracy
K1 church-state relations