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Christian Faith and Modern Democracy
Author | : Robert P. Kraynak |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015053486984 |
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This work challenges the commonly accepted view that Christianity is inherently compatible with modern democratic society. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it argues that there is no necessary connection between Christianity and any form of government.
CHRISTIAN FAITH AND MODERN DEMOCRACY
Author | : Robert P. Kraynak |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Christianity and politics |
ISBN | : 0268024103 |
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"Christian Faith and Modern Democracy was written, in part, to convince secular intellectuals that modern democracy needs God. But it was also written in response to the new consensus about politics that has emerged among Christian believers. Almost all churches and theologians now think that the form of government most compatible with Christianity is democracy and that the historic opposition of the Christian tradition to democracy and to various forms of liberalism was a mistake. What caused Christians to change their view of political authority and to embrace liberal democracy? Were they wise to change their view?"--Jacket.
Christianity and Democracy
Author | : John W. De Gruchy |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1995-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0521458412 |
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The need for global democratisation is now widely recognised, but there is considerable debate about what this means and how it can be achieved. In this important study John de Gruchy examines the historic and contemporary roles of Christianity in the development of democracy. He traces the gestation of modern democracy in medieval Christendom, and then describes the virtual breakdown of the relationship as democracy becomes the polity of modernity. Five twentieth-century case studies - the USA, Nicaragua, sub-Saharan Africa, Germany and South Africa - demonstrate the extent to which ecumenical Christianity has begun to reconnect with democracy and act as its contemporary midwife. De Gruchy argues that democracy needs to rediscover its spiritual heritage, while Christianity needs to develop a theology adequate for its participation in the realisation of a just democratic world order.
Religion and the Rise of Democracy
Author | : Graham Maddox |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2012-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134973521 |
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In a major original study, Graham Maddox analyses the role of religion in the development of democracy from the tribes of ancient Israel to the present day. The book contrasts Athenian direct democracy with the Old Testament monarchy in which the concept of religious opposition - vital to modern democracy - arose. Maddox then develops his discussion of the relationship between religion and democracy through early christianity to the Reformation and Calvinism, ending with a chapter on modern democracy. Maddox's contentious thesis concerning the development of democracy is truly interdisciplinary drawing on political science, religious history and theology.
Christians as Political Animals
Author | : Marc D. Guerra |
Publsiher | : Intercollegiate Studies Institute |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Christianity and politics |
ISBN | : IND:30000127081481 |
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An insightful look at faith, reason, and the limits of modern liberty While it is common for today's secularists to push organized religion to the margins of politics, it is equally common for Christians to believe that modern democracy is the only type of regime compatible with their faith. But in fact, this belief cannot be squared with the long and rich tradition of Christian political thought, as Marc D. Guerra makes clear in Christians as Political Animals. Guerra shows that a problematic shift occurred when Christian thinkers began to argue that their religion received its best political articulation in democracy. Calling on thinkers ranging from Augustine and Aquinas to twentieth-century theologians and political philosophers, Guerra argues that while modern democracy and its various attendant goods should be affirmed, Christian thought must recognize the limited scope of the political realm and maintain the proper critical distance. Christians as Political Animals reminds modern democracy of a truth it is prone to forget: civil society relies on extrapolitical goods such as love, friendship, morality, and faith for its health and survival.
Christianity And Democracy In Global Context
Author | : John Witte |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2019-03-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780429720079 |
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In the past, Christianity has had both positive and negative influences on democracy. Christian churches have served as benevolent agents of welfare and catalysts of political reform. But they have also served as belligerent allies of repression and censors of human rights. Christian theology has helped to cultivate democratic ideas of equality, li
Democratic Religion from Locke to Obama
Author | : Giorgi Areshidze |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 0700622675 |
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This book explores the transformations in religion and its civic role in American democracy from John Locke to Barack Obama.
What is Christian Democracy
Author | : Carlo Invernizzi Accetti |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2019-10-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781108421669 |
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A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.