Journal of Church and State articles from March 2001

Journal of Church and State archives from March 2001

The U.S. Supreme Court as moral physician: Mitchell v. Helms and the constitutional revolution to reduce restrictions on governmental aid to religion.
March 22, 2001... Enormous public energy is being expended in the United States in attempts to relieve the supposed malaise enveloping the nation's schools. Politicians, religious leaders, academics, even eccentric industry moguls have offered countless...

Bonhoeffer, racism, and a communal model for healing.(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
March 22, 2001... The impact that contacts with the African-American church had on the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is well known by now to those in the scholarly guild.(1) Consequently, the focus of this essay concentrates not so much on the...

Quebec Independentisme and the Life of Faith(1).
March 22, 2001... In July of 1997 a bronze statue of Charles de Gaulle was unveiled outside the walls of Quebec City. The $150,000 price tag attached to this commodity might have seemed exorbitant to many Canadians whose cash-strapped governments were then being...

Evangelism and Church-State Partnerships.
March 22, 2001... In the many debates sparked by Charitable Choice,(1) the issue of proselytizing often takes center stage. Americans instinctively resist the prospect of a welfare recipient in a government-funded church-based job-training program, for example,...

A man true to his principles: John Joachim Zubly and Calvinism.(Georgia)
March 22, 2001... Those whom God hath joined together (Great-Britain and America, Liberty and Loyalty), let no man put asunder: And may peace and prosperity ever attend this happy union. (Feb. 1, 1769)(1) John Joachim Zubly (1724-1781) was the pastor of the...

School reform, the First Amendment, and civility in the 1990s: the construction of a statement of principles for religion and public education.
March 22, 2001... Americans have long struggled over the role that religion should play in their systems of public schooling. For more than a century, social tension over issues such as doctrine, science, prayer, and morality has found a public stage in the...

Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical Prophetic Ecclesiology.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical Prophetic Ecclesiology. By Nicholas Healy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 199 pp. np. Recent theology has taken a decidedly ecclesiological turn. The church is now a central...

Public Theology for Changing Times.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Public Theology for Changing Times. By John Atherton. London: SPCK, 2000. ix + 166pp. n.p. It is difficult to recall any period in which Christian theologians have not been concerned with how religious belief informs response to, and...

Deconstructing Jesus.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Deconstructing Jesus. By Robert M. Price. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000. 284 pp. $31.95. An undergrad once wrote, "Shakespeare's plays were not actually written by Shakespeare but by someone else named Shakespeare." I am reminded...

Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches. Edited by Walter Wink. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 1999. 133 pp. n.p. Walter Wink, professor of biblical interpretation at Auburn Theological Seminary in...

Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith, and Power. By Michele Dillon. Boston, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 289 pp. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Michele Dillon, associate professor of sociology at Yale University, faces the...

Baptist Roots: A Reader in the Theology of a Christian People.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Baptist Roots: A Reader in the Theology of a Christian People. Edited by Curtis W. Freeman, James Wm. McClendon, Jr., and C. Rosalee Velloso da Silva. Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press, 1999. 436 pp. n.p. In Baptist literature, rarely does...

Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance. By Harold A. Drake. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 609 pp. $68.00. In this study, Harold Drake looks at the political bond forged between Constantine and...

Proselytization and Communal Self-Determination in Africa.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Proselytization and Communal Self-Determination in Africa. Edited by Abdullahi Armed An-Na'im. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999. 317 pp. $25.00. This assemblage of essays on proselytization and communal self-determination in Africa is...

Revolution and Religion in Ethiopia.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Revolution and Religion in Ethiopia. By Oyvind M. Eide. Oxford: James Currey, 2000. 300 pp. $49.95 paper. Published under the auspices of the Eastern African Studies series, this book has already garnered the attention of those interested...

Church Planting Commitment: New Church Development in Hong Kong During the Run-up to 1997.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Church Planting Commitment: New Church Development in Hong Kong during the Run-Up to 1997. By Hakan Granberg. Abo: Abo Akademi University Press, 2000. 310 pp. n.p. Hakan Granberg is an ordained clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church...

A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor, and the Standards of the West.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor, and the Standards of the West. By Noam Chomsky. London: Verso, 2000. 154 pp. n.p. "There can be no doubt that the FRY [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia] authorities and security forces...

The Church at the Grassroots in Latin America: Perspectives on Thirty Years of Activism.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... The Church at the Grassroots in Latin America: Perspectives on Thirty Years of Activism. Edited by John Burdick and W.E. Hewitt. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. 222 pp. n.p. The systematic dismantling of the liberation theology movement by...

Reflections on the Theology of Richard Hooker: An Elizabethan Addresses Modern Anglicanism.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Reflections on the Theology of Richard Hooker: An Elizabethan Addresses Modern Anglicanism. By John Booty. Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South Press, 1998. vii + 219 pp. n.p. In the last quarter century, there has been a noticeable rise...

Apocalypse How? Baptist Movements During the English Revolution.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Apocalypse How? Baptist Movements During the English Revolution. By Mark R. Bell. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. 299 pp. $35.00. Apocalypse How? Baptist Movements During the English Revolution bridges an appreciable gap in...

No North Sea: The Anglo-German Evangelical Network in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
March 22, 2001... No North Sea: The Anglo-German Evangelical Network in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. By Nicholas M. Railton. Leiden: Brill, 2000. 286 pp. $100.00. Nicholas M. Railton's study examines the international interdenominational movement...

Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920. By Jim Bissett. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xviii + 249 pp. n.p. In Agrarian Socialism in America, Jim Bissett offers a...

A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
March 22, 2001... A Genealogy of Dissent: Southern Baptist Protest in the Twentieth Century. By David Stricklin. Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999. xvii + 229 pp. n.p. While Southern Baptist identity has historically been just to the...

The Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith.
March 22, 2001... The Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century: Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith. By David Edwin Harrell, Jr. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2000. 455 pp. $34.95. David Edwin Harrell, Jr. has blended institutional...

The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism. By Robert William Fogel. Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. 383 pp. n.p. Robert Fogel's Without Consent or Contract attributed the demise of American slavery...

The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy. By Donald Wiebe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 332 pages. n.p. Donald Wiebe is the author of sixteen essays comprising this volume which plumbs...

Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio. By Paul Apostolidis. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. 273 pp. $18.95. In a remarkable, counterintuitive, and atypical study of American evangelical political discourse, Paul...

The Next Religious Establishment: National Identity and Political Theology in Post-Protestant America.(Review)
March 22, 2001... The Next Religious Establishment: National Identity and Political Theology in Post-Protestant America. By Eldon J. Eisenach. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 177 pp. $22.95. Do not read this book because you think the author...

Politics, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation About Religion's Role in Our Shared Life.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Politics, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation About Religion's Role in Our Shared Life. By Martin E. Marry with Jonathan Moore. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000. 184 pp. $23.00. In...

Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform. By Jeannie Oakes, Karen Hunter Quartz, Steve Ryan, and Martin Lipton. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000. 343 pp. $28.95. The total...