Journal of Church and State articles from September 2006

Journal of Church and State archives from September 2006

Pluralism and freedom of conscience.
September 22, 2006... The tension between America as a Christian nation and America as a haven of religious liberty has characterized this country from nearly its beginnings. * Historian Frank Lambert has established two moments, 1639 and 1787, as defining much of...

The Baptist Union of Southern Africa and apartheid.
September 22, 2006... ********** Scholarly analysis of the South African churches in relation to that country's troubled history of race relations has advanced on an uneven front. Since the 1979 publication of John de Gruchy's seminal The Church Struggle in...

Professor Kevin MacDonald's critique of Judaism: legitimate scholarship or the intellectualization of anti-semitism?
September 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Since the end of World War II, anti-Semitism has been relegated to the furthermost fringes of American society. To be sure, the enormity of the Holocaust has limited critical discussion on the topic of Jewish influence on...

Religion and politics at the border: Canadian church support for American Vietnam War resisters.
September 22, 2006... In May 1971, in the Admiral's Room of the Detroit airport, 12 miles (20 kilometres) from the U.S.-Canadian border, delegates to a joint conference of the Canadian Council of Churches and the U.S.-based National Council of Churches closed their...

Financing faith and learning: assessing the constitutional implications of integrating faith and learning at the church-related college.
September 22, 2006... The past decade has witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the secularization of American church-related higher education. (1) This scholarship has included not only explanations of why secularization has occurred, but also prescriptions for...

Ronald Reagan and the splintering of the Christian Right.
September 22, 2006... In the years since the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, they have named buildings, airports, and even a freeway after their hero Ronald Reagan. Conservatives hail him as the father of modern Republican politics. The Christian Right...

The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism. By Lucas Swaine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 215 pp. $35.00. In The Liberal Conscience, Lucas Swaine argues that it is possible to bring...

Politics as Religion.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Politics as Religion. By Emilio Gentile. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. 194 pp. $39.50. In six tightly written and very well organized chapters, Gentile presents a tour of two centuries of world politics. However, it is...

The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke: Man, Person, and Spirits in the "Essay".(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Two Intellectual Worlds of John Locke: Man, Person, and Spirits in the "Essay." By John W. Yolton. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. Xvi + 180 pp. $35.00. One always reads with interest anything John W. Yolton writes...

The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards. Edited by Sang Hyun Lee. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. 331 pp. $45.00. A good and useful book, the introduction states that the book is "intended to be a source to which...

John Howard Yoder: Mennonite Patience, Evangelical Witness, Catholic Convictions.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... John Howard Yoder: Mennonite Patience, Evangelical Witness, Catholic Convictions. By Mark Thiessen Nation. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006. 211 pp. $20.00 paper. Nation's careful exposition of John H. Yoder's work is a...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Life in Pictures.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Life in Pictures. Centenary Edition. Edited by Renate Bethge and Christian Gremmels. Translated by Brian McNeil. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2006. 160 pp. $25.00. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) descended from...

The Church as Koinonia of Salvation: Its Structures and Ministries.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Church as Koinonia of Salvation: Its Structures and Ministries. Edited by Randall Lee and Jeffrey Gros, FSC. Washington, D.C.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005. 293pp. $34.95 paper. This monograph is a resource for the...

Christian Community in History: Comparative Ecclesiology, vol 2.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Christian Community in History: Comparative Ecclesiology, vol 2. By Roger Haight, S.J. New York and London: Continuum, 2005. ix + 518 pp. $34.95. Roger Haight has written a magisterial summary of the major developments in ecclesiology from...

Rallying the Really Human Things: Moral Imagination in Politics, Literature and Everyday Life.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Rallying the Really Human Things: Moral Imagination in Politics, Literature and Everyday Life. By Vigen Guroian. Wilmington, Del.: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2005. 325pp. $25.00. Authored by Vigen Guroian, an Orthodox theologian and...

Christians and a Land Called Holy: How We Can Foster Justice, Peace, and Hope.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Christians and a Land Called Holy: How We Can Foster Justice, Peace, and Hope. By Charles P. Lutz and Robert O. Smith. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2006. 168 pp. $15.00 paper. While many North Americans are consuming religious novels...

Hizbullah: The Story from Within.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Hizbullah: The Story from Within. By Naim Qassem. Translated by Dalia Khalil. London: Saqi Books, 2005. 320 pp. $42.50. Hizbullah: The Story from Within provides an articulate and non-analytical insider's view of Lebanon's foremost...

The Papacy, the Jews, and the Holocaust.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Papacy, the Jews and the Holocaust. By Frank J. Coppa. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. 353 pp. $59.95. At the outset of his engaging and accessible study, Frank Coppa, professor of history at St....

Prophetic and Public: The Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Prophetic and Public: The Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism. By Kristin E. Heyer. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006. 248pp. $26.95. In this meticulously researched volume, part of the Moral Traditions series edited by...

Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, State Formation, and Indigenous Mexico, 1935-1985.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, State Formation, and Indigenous Mexico, 1935-1985. By Todd Hartch. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 272 pp. $39.95. In Missionaries of the State: The Summer...

Defining the Jacobean Church: The Politics of Religious Controversy, 1603-1625.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Defining the Jacobean Church: The Politics of Religious Controversy 1603-1625. By Charles A. Prior. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 194 pp. $85.00. This book is a study of how English Protestants defined the church of England...

The Story of Baptists in the United States.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Story of Baptists in the United States. By Pamela R. and Keith E. Durso. Brentwood, Tenn.: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2006. 224 pp. $29.95 paper. Re-told numerous times in print throughout their storied existence, the...

From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... From New Babylon to Eden: The Huguenots and Their Migration to Colonial South Carolina. By Bertrand Van Ruymbeke. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. 396pp. $49.95. Roughly 200,000 Calvinists secretly fled France...

The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. By Mark A. Noll. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 202 pp. $29.95. In this relatively brief but informative book, church historian Mark Noll examines American and European...

Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. By Michelle Goldberg. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. 242 pp. np. Journalist Michelle Goldberg, in her first book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, has produced a...

Evangelicalism: An Americanized Christianity.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Evangelicalism: An Americanized Christianity. By Richard Kyle. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2006. 337 pp. $34.95. Richard's Kyle's Evangelicalism: An Americanized Christianity is not an evaluation of American evangelicalism...

Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, and the U.S. House of Representatives.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Uncompromising Positions: God, Sex, and the U.S. House of Representatives. By Elizabeth Anne Oldmixon. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005. 244 pp. np. In this interesting and well-written book, Elizabeth Anne Oldmixon...

People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States. By Michael O. Emerson with Rodney M. Woo. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2006. 264 pp. $24.95. As Michael Emerson and Rodney Woo make clear, life in...