The Political Pulpit RevisitedPurdue University Press, 2005 - 240 páginas The Political Pulpit Revisited examines a set of arguments originally made in 1975 about church-state relations in the U.S. Scholars have long wondered how a nation of some two thousand different religious denominations has been able to remain relatively calm about such matters. Controversial issues like abortion rights, war-time pacifism, sanctuary for illegal aliens, clerical abuse of children, non-taxation of church property, and other matters con-tinually roil the political waters. The first edition describes how church and state tensions are worked out symbolically rather than coercively, legally, or economically. The Political Pulpit Revisited updates church/state arguments and then offers reflections by eight distinguished scholars who re-examine the relationship in light of recent events. The result is a fresh look at the American experiment in those relations and what it portends for the U.S. in the years ahead. |
Contenido
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An Alternative Understanding of Civic Piety | 43 |
Rhetorical Features of Civic Piety | 61 |
Postlude | 93 |
The Force of Religion in the Public Sphere | 99 |
A New Scholarly Dispensation for Civil Religion | 109 |
American Evangelicalism Democracy and Civic Piety A ComputerBased Analysis of Promise Keepers Discourse | 137 |
Forging a CivilReligious Construct for the Twentyfirst Century Should Harts Contract Be Renewed? | 151 |
Official and Unofficial Civil Religious Discourse | 161 |
Broken Covenants and the American Pantheon Church and State 25 Years after The Political Pulpit | 169 |
God Country and a World of Words | 183 |
Notes | 193 |
References | 221 |
Index | 233 |
Rhetoric Religion and Government at the Turn of the Twentyfirst Century | 117 |
President Clinton and the White House Prayer Breakfast | 127 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 165 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Página 134 - Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting...
Página 45 - Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes — is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it.
Página 132 - Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Página 46 - I therefore beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.
Página 132 - Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your unfailing love; according to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are proved right when You speak and justified when You judge.
Página 90 - American nation but an understanding of the American experience in the light of ultimate and universal reality, the reorganization entailed by such a new situation need not disrupt the American civil religion's continuity.
Página 102 - I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Página 64 - The God of the civil religion is not only rather unitarian, he is also on the austere side, much more related to order, law, and right than to salvation and love
Página 119 - The whole address can be understood as only the most recent statement of a theme that lies very deep in the American tradition, namely the obligation, both collective and individual, to carry out God's will on earth. This was the motivating spirit of those who founded America, and it has been present in every generation since. Just below the surface throughout Kennedy's inaugural address, it becomes explicit in the closing statement that God's work must be our own. That this very activist and noncontemplative...
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