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So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over
Church and State (Hardcover)
by Forrest Church (Author)
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Book Description
T oday's dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack
thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a
powerful retelling of the birth of the American body politic,
religious historian Forrest Church describes our first great culture
war—a tumultuous yet nearly forgotten conflict that raged from George
Washington's presidency to James Monroe's. On one side of the battle,
the proponents of order—Federalists, Congregationalists, New
Englanders—believed that the only legitimate ruler of men is God. On
the other side, the defenders of liberty—republicans, Baptists,
Virginians—cheered the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and
believed that only the separation of church and state would preserve
man's freedom. Would we be a nation under God, or with liberty for all?
In this vigorous history, Forrest Church offers a new vision of our
earliest presidents' beliefs, reshaping assumptions about the debates
that still reverberate across our land.
About the Author
FORREST CHURCH is currently serving his thirtieth year as minister of
All Souls Church in Manhattan. He earned his doctorate in church
history at Harvard and has written or edited twenty-two books,
including The Separation of Church and State. He lives in New York.
Product Details
* Hardcover: 544 pages
* Publisher: Harcourt (September 10, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0151011850
* ISBN-13: 978-0151011858
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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