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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs	James V. Schall	Echoing philosophers such as Josef Pieper, Schall explains how the modern world has inverted the rational order of human affairs, devaluing the activities of leisure and placing an exaggerated emphas…	OL116304W
What the world should be	Malcolm D. Magee	In What the World Should Be, Malcolm Magee demonstrates that Woodrow Wilson was immersed in a Presbyterian tradition that shaped his presidency. He argues that Wilson's religious convictions shaped h…	OL11885639W
Religion and American foreign policy, 1945-1960	William Inboden	"The Cold War was in many ways a religious war. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and other American leaders believed that human rights and freedoms were endowed by God, that God had called the United…	OL11952646W
Traite et esclavage des noirs au nom du christianisme	Jean Mpisi	La traite et l'esclavage des Noirs sont aujourd'hui reconnus par la communauté internationale comme un crime contre l'humanité. Un crime qu'ont commis, du XVè au XIXè siècle, en toute impunité, des c…	OL11978981W
God and Politics	Gary Scott Smith	16 contributors represent four positions on the biblical role of civil government. Originally delivered at a consultation on that topic, each of the four major papers is presented by a leading repres…	OL120904W
God and the founders	Vincent Phillip Muñoz	Did the Founding Fathers intend to build a "wall of separation" between church and state? Are public Ten Commandments displays or the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance consistent with th…	OL13646859W
The calling	Nancy Charton	"The issue of women's ordination still occasionally makes the news. The controversy over women Bishops in the 2008 Church of England synod is a case in point. Within the Roman Catholic and Orthodox C…	OL15087339W
God of Liberty	Thomas S. Kidd	Before the Revolutionary War, America was a nation divided by different faiths. But when the war for independence sparked in 1776, colonists united under the banner of religious freedom. Evangelical …	OL15400637W
War, religion and empire	Andrew Phillips	"What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, …	OL15444039W
Christian Anarchism	Alexandre Christoyannopoulos	Christian anarchism has been around for at least as long as “secular” anarchism. The existing literature cites Leo Tolstoy as its most famous (sometimes even as the only) proponent, but there are man…	OL15670474W
Toward the common good	Robert F. Gorman	Over the course of two millennia, the Catholic Church has served as one of the key institutional influences on the development of political science. Papal writings on the social teachings of the Chur…	OL15921046W
The stoning of Sally Kern	Sally Kern	Recounts the Oklahoma State Representative's speech sharing some revelations about a homosexual political strategy and the aftermath of hate mail and media coverage.	OL16167164W
By the hand of providence	Rod Gragg	Based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers from the crafting of the Declaration of Independence to the signing of the peace treaty with Britain, th…	OL16298407W
The mighty and the almighty	Nicholas Wolterstorff	"For a century or more political theology has been in decline. Recent years, however, have seen increasing interest not only in how church and state should be related, but in the relation between div…	OL16654274W
Christian Persecution in the Middle East	George J. Marlin	In his new book, author and political commentator George J. Marlin, Chairman of Aid to the Church in Need - USA - an agency under the guidance of the Pope that supports the persecuted and suffering C…	OL17365356W
The Political Pope	George Neumayr	The untold story of the left's efforts to politicize the Vatican and the battle to stop it-before the Catholic Church as we know it is destroyed. Pope Francis is the most liberal pope in the histo…	OL17839944W
Religion, politics, and the American experience	Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer	"Chief among the essay topics are the evangelical roots of American political life; early conflicts between Enlightenment thinking and spiritual impulses in developing a national identity; the practi…	OL17896523W
On God's side	Jim Wallis	Jim Wallis thinks our life together can be better. In this timely and provocative book, he shows us how to reclaim Jesus's ancient and compelling vision of the common good -- a vision that impacts an…	OL18174791W
The Church and modern society	Léo Moulin	136 pages ; 22 cm	OL19060294W
Live Not By Lies	Rod Dreher	For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America--something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eigh…	OL20771824W