Journal of Church and State articles from January 1999

Journal of Church and State archives from January 1999

The via media of Paul Ramsey's political ethics.
January 1, 1999... In the discipline of theological ethics, one cannot travel very far before encountering Paul Ramsey. Certainly, in political and medical ethics, his literary output was prodigious before his death in 1988. In fact, Charles Curran, who has...

Vladimir S. Soloviev and the politics of human rights.
January 1, 1999... In the preface to a corrected and enlarged second edition of his well-known book, Justification of the Good, the Russian philosopher-theologian Vladimir S. Soloviev (1853-1900) declared a major purpose of his moral philosophy to be "to...

Public religion vis a vis the prophetic role of religion.
January 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION In addressing the subject of "public religion," it is well to recall that the notion of private religion is a relatively modern concept and one primarily identified intellectually with the the rise of modernity and...

State vs. church: implementing Reformation.(England under Henry VIII in the early 1500s)
January 1, 1999... Henry Kamen wrote that "in medieval times the pulpit had been the chief moderator of public opinion, and in the sixteenth century both Protestants and Catholies rediscovered the potential of the sermon."(1) Although it is questionable how many...

Religion, state, and society in the new Kyrgyzstan.
January 1, 1999... Within Central Asia the tiny mountainous republic of Kyrgyzstan has made something of a name for itself since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Under President Askar Akaev, Kyrgyzstan has been described as the `Switzerland of the East' and...

Richard Hooker and American religious liberty.
January 1, 1999... When historians trace the origins of the American concept of religious liberty, they often cite as a key fact that many of the English settlers came to North America to escape religious persecution. This is tree, especially when one considers...

Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and Fatwas of the Dar al-Ifta.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Defining Islam for the Egyptian State: Muftis and Fatwas of the Dar al-Ifta. By Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen. Leiden: Brill, 1997. 420 pp. $47.50. This is a well researched study of the history of Dar al-Ifta in Egypt, an official religious...

Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression. By Farid Esack. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1997. 288 pp. $22.95. The recent rise of Islam as a sociopolitical ideology of...

Christians and Jews Under Islam.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Christians and Jews under Islam. By Youssef Courbage and Phillipe Fargues. New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1997. 242 pp. $59.50. This book is an enlightening historical, demographic, and sociopolitical sketch of Muslim-Christian-Jewish...

Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law. By Anthony J. Lisska. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 320 pp. np. This volume seeks to fill the need for a detailed account of Aquinas's argument for natural law "written from the perspective of analytic...

On Toleration.(Review)
January 1, 1999... On Toleration. By Michael Walzer. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997 126 pp. $16.50. Toleration, argues Walzer, sustains life itself because toleration makes possible the peaceful coexistence of people whose cultural, religious,...

The Evangelical Left: Encountering Postconservative Evangelical Theology.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Evangelical Left: Encountering Postconservative Evangelical Theology. By Millard J. Erickson. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1997. 157 pp. $14.99 paper. The main title of this book is unfortunate since it might lead some potential...

The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies. By Stephen V. Monsma and J. Christopher Soper. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997. 228 pp. $52.50 cloth; $21.95 paper. This book explores the...

The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940. By John W. Sherman. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997. 154 pp. $55.00. Traditionally historians have viewed the sexenio of Lazaro Cardenas as the culmination of many of the leftist...

Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England. By Jane Kamensky. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 291 pp. $35.00. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the people of Providence watched their own Sarah Osborn...

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence: Origins, Philosophy and Theology.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Jefferson's Declaration of Independence: Origins, Philosophy and Theology. By Allen Jayne. Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 245 pp. $39.95. Jayne's Jefferson's Declaration will appeal to both philosophers and...

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65. By Taylor Branch. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 742 pages. $30.00. In this second volume of his trilogy on America during the years of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights. By Charles Marsh. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. 276 pp. $24.95. Literature on various aspects of the modern civil rights movement has appeared in abundance over the...

Religion in Modern New Mexico.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Religion in Modern New Mexico. Edited by Ferenc M. Szasz and Richard W. Etulain. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. 221 pp. $19.95. Religion in Modern New Mexico casts a wide net in exploring the many faiths, old and...

American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity. By Paul K. Conkin. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xv + 336 pp. $55.00 cloth; $18.95 paper. Readers familiar with the works of Paul Conkin will be glad...

Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience. By Jonathan D. Sarna and David G. Dalin. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 1997. 331 pp. $40.00. Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience justifies itself as...

Religious Advocacy and American History.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Religious Advocacy and American History. Edited by Bruce Kuklick and D.E. Hart. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997. Xx + 233 pp. np. This is an important and provocative collection of twelve essays written by...

Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate. By Robert Audi and Nicholas Wolterstorff. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. 180 pp. np. Though this book is an excellent contribution to the...

The Rise of the Imperial Self: America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective.(Review)
January 1, 1999... The Rise of the Imperial Self: America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective. By Ronald W. Dworkin. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1996. 272 pp. $59.50 cloth; $23.95 paper. This ambitious book finds a template for...

Culture Wars in American Politics: Critical Reviews of a Popular Myth.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Culture Wars in American Politics: Critical Reviews of a Popular Myth. Edited by Rhys H. Williams. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, Inc., 1997. 299 pp. $45.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. This collection of studies successfully marshals a battery of...

Recent Doctoral Dissertations in Church and State.
January 1, 1999... EDUCATION Urmston, Benjamin Joseph, Ph.D. "Restless Hearts. Ignatian Spirituality and Justice: A Vision of a Peaceful World." The Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1998. 420pp. HISTORY Ash, Patricia B., Ph.D. "The Quest for...

BOOKS RECEIVED.
January 1, 1999... Alnor, William M. UFO Cults and the New Millennium. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1997. 160 pp. $12.99 paper. Archdiocese of Sao Paulo. Torture in Brazil: A Shocking Report on the Persuasive use of Torture by Brazilian Military...