[PDF] The Christian Citizen eBook

Author : Vincent D. Rougeau
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0195188098

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This book challenges the argument that the United States is a Christian nation, and that the American founding and the American Constitution can be linked to a Christian understanding of the state and society. Vincent Rougeau argues that the United States has become an economic empire of consumer citizens, led by elites who seek to secure American political and economic dominance around the world. Freedom and democracy for the oppressed are the public themes put forward to justify this dominance, but the driving force behind American hegemony is the need to sustain economic growth and maintain social peace in the United States. --from publisher description.

Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307265773

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A criticism of Christianity from the secularist point of view.

Author : Sandra F. Joireman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195378466

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In Church, State, and Citizen , Sandra F. Joireman has gathered political scientists to examine the relationship between religion and politics as seen from within seven Christian traditions: Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Anglican, Evangelical and Pentecostal. In each chapter the historical and theological foundations of the tradition are described along with the beliefs regarding the appropriate role of the state and citizen. --from publisher description

Author : David C. Innes
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629955940

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What are a Christian's civic responsibilities, and why? David Innes provides a principled political theology for understanding our civic "life together" in God's world. God calls our human officeholders and their civic business to a high moral purpose. His involvement in earthly rule reveals the nobility of political life-‚"a practice it rarely conforms to but to which we should aspire.

Author : Kristy Maddux
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Christians
ISBN : 9781602582538

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For decades, American popular media have instructed audiences about their roles and significance in the public sphere. In The Faithful Citizen, rhetorical critic Kristy Maddux argues that popular Christian media not only communicate avenues for civic engagement but do so in profoundly gendered terms. Her detailed interrogation of popular Christian movies, books, and television shows--the Left Behind series, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Amazing Grace, 7th Heaven, and the blockbuster The Da Vinci Code--exposes five competing models of how Christians should behave in the civic sphere as their gendered selves. What emerges is a typology that insightfully reveals how these varying faith-based models of engagement uniquely shape public discourse and influence the larger picture of contemporary politics.