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17 produkter
Early New England
A Covenanted Society
Häftad, 2005
367 kr
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The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders.Unmatched in the breadth of …
Power Over The Body, Equality In The Family
Rights And Domestic Relations In Medieval Canon Law
Häftad, 2004
356 kr
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The term "conjugal rights" has long characterized ways of speaking about marriage both in the canonistic tradition and in the secular legal systems of the West. This book explores the origins and dimensions of this concept and the range of meanings that have attached to it from the twelfth century …
Ten Commandments in History
Mosaic Paradigms for a Well-Ordered Society
Av Kuntz, Thomas D'Evelyn
Häftad, 2004
250 kr
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Paul Grimley Kuntz was a deeply religious man who not only found religious profundity in the Decalogue but also was convinced that it offers the most reasonable paradigm for a well-ordered society. Decrying the loss of the true meaning of the Decalogue in modern times, Kuntz spent the last decade …
Suing for America's Soul
John Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute, and Conservative Christians in the Courts
Häftad, 2007
219 kr
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When John W. Whitehead founded The Rutherford Institute as a Christian legal advocacy group in 1982, he was interested primarily in the First Amendment's religion clause, serving clients only when religious freedom was at stake. By the mid-1990s, however, religious rights were but one subset of all …
God's Joust, God's Justice
Law and Religion in the Western Tradition
Häftad, 2006
398 kr
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There are three things that people will die for -- their faith, their freedom, and their family. This volume focuses on all three, including the interactions among them, in the Western tradition and today. Retrieving and reconstructing a wealth of material from the earliest Hebrew and Greek texts …
Theology of Law and Authority in English Reformation
Häftad, 1991
276 kr
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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This work examines the ideas of the English Reformers regarding the origin and nature of law and authority for both church and commonwealth. It places the political and legal thought of the Reformers in the broader context of the …
Faith and Order
The Reconciliation of Law and Religion
Häftad, 1993
345 kr
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This book argues that despite the tensions existing in all societies between religious faith and legal order, they inevitably interact. In the course of his discussion Berman traces the history of Western law, exposes the fallacies of law theories that fail to take religion into account, examines …
Religious Liberty in Western Thought
Av Noel B. Reynolds, W. Cole Durham Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
312 kr
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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. In this volume, several leading scholars harvest the best of Western thinking on religious liberty. An opening chapter shows how religious liberty emerged slowly in the West through centuries of cruel experience and growing …
Idea of Natural Rights
Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law, and Church Law, 1150-1625
Häftad, 1997
293 kr
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This series, originally published by Scholars Press and now available from Eerdmans, is intended to foster exploration of the religious dimensions of law, the legal dimensions of religion, and the interaction of legal and religious ideas, institutions, and methods. Written by leading scholars of …
Fabric of Hope
An Essay
Häftad, 1999
240 kr
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This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This superb new volume is addressed to everyone interested in hope, regardless of their religious or philosophical beliefs. Glenn Tinder, one of our most astute and creative thinkers, probes the failure of modern, secular hope and …
Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics
Häftad, 2006
367 kr
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Is knowledge of right and wrong written on the human heart? Do people know God from the world around them? Does natural knowledge contribute to Christian doctrine? While these questions of natural theology and natural law have historically been part of theological reflection, the radical reliance …
Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms
A Study in the Development of Reformed Social Thought
Häftad, 2009
377 kr
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Conventional wisdom holds that the theology and social ethics of the Reformed tradition stand at odds with concepts of natural law and the two kingdoms. This volume challenges that conventional wisdom through a study of Reformed social thought from the Reformation to the present.
Liberty
Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal
Av Glenn Tinder
Häftad, 2007
335 kr
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Liberty is a dangerous concept. It's sure to be misused and, if left unchecked, will likely bring not social harmony and happiness but their opposites. Nonetheless, liberty is absolutely necessary: without it there can be no authentic community. People are not free to do the right thing unless they …
Justice in Love
Häftad, 2015
219 kr
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An eminent Christian philosopher's take on justice, rights, wrongs -- and what love has to do with it all Love and justice have long been prominent themes in the moral culture of the West, yet they are often considered to be almost hopelessly at odds with one another. In this book acclaimed …
Pagans and Christians in the City
Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac
Häftad, 2021
345 kr
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Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very …
Building Cultures of Trust
Häftad, 2022
229 kr
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American society is experiencing a profound crisis of trust, from government to mass media to educational and religious institutions. And - whether we realize it or not - this crisis affects us all. In Building Cultures of Trust, Martin Marty proposes ways of improving the conditions for trust at …
