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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"religious liberty"”.
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Baptists and religious liberty: 1700-1900
… the theological and historical understanding of religious liberty and separation of church and state among seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth-century American Baptists. Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the historiography of Baptist advocacy of religious liberty and church-state separation. …
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Contest of Civility: Conformity, Dissent, and the Struggle for Religious Liberty
… by faith alone, the proclamation of “Christian liberty,” and the proliferation of doctrinal and denominational pluralism forced the theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reexamine the Christendom thesis. The contours of that delicate relationship gripped the minds of …
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Decision-Making at the Court of Appeals Level Involving Religious Liberty Cases
… cases, but no work has specifically looked at religious liberty cases. This work examines the factors affecting United States Courts of Appeals judges' decision-making in religious liberty cases. I hypothesize that gender, race, religious background, prior judicial experience, circuit, region …
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Religious Liberty in Contemporary Evangelical Social Ethics: An Assessment and Framework for Socio-political Challenges
… theologically grounded social ethic concerning religious liberty. The resulting impasse is one where religious liberty lacks distinctly evangelical contours. Modern and contemporary religious liberty discussions have been ceded, almost exclusively, to political and legal philosophy. At the same …
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Religious liberty through the lens of textualism and a Living Constitution : the First Amendment Establishment Clause interpretations of Justices William Brennan, Jr. and Antonin Scalia.
This paper examines how the jurisprudential visions of United States Supreme Court Justices William Brennan, Jr. and Antonin Scalia guide their interpretations of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. The paper begins by examining Establishment Clause basics, the United States legal system and …
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James M. Dunn and soul freedom : a paradigm for Baptist political engagement in the public arena.
… been the most aggressive Baptist proponent for religious liberty in the United States. As the leader of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, Dunn's understanding of church-state separation was a battleground in the Southern Baptist Controversy of the 1980s. "Conservative Resurgence" …
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Originalism & Judicially-Enacted Religious Exemptions: Revisiting <em>Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith</em>
… Exercise Clause to mean that, in certain cases, religious believers should be exempted from otherwise applicable laws. In 1990, the Supreme Court essentially overturned that framework in the case Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith . The Smith case has proved quite controversial, and numerous …
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
… party during their shared fight to secure religious liberty in the infant nation, Baptists increasingly embodied Jeffersonian ideals through ecclesial practices that prioritized individual liberty and opposed any semblance of authoritarianism. However, the same partisan loyalty that aided …
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Narratives of Exclusion: Gender, Sex, Islamophobia, and Violence in American Political Discourse
… case studies reveals that culture wars around religious liberty, reproductive control, immigration, and gun violence serve as extensions of imperialism and white Christian nationalism. At the end of this work, I propose a framework for ameliorating such discursive violence. I advocate an …
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Baptist identity in ecumenical context : a critical exposition of the 1987 Statement on Baptist Principles of the Baptist Union of South Africa
… freedom is the term given to denote the focus on religious liberty and the separation of church from the state, as well as indicating the church's prophetic role. Drawing from the rich heritage of Anabaptist and English Baptist history and theology, and reflecting on other evangelical and …
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The Shaping of a Pilgrim: A Discussion of the English and Continental Religious Literature Influencing Separatism and the Pilgrims
… of the yeoman class, Cooke came to embrace the religious principles of the Separatists, although his background may have been Roman Catholic or Anglican. This thesis deals with that part of the religious Literature of Tudor and Jacobean England, as well as that of the European continent of those …
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The Evangelicalism of Alexander Carson
… of the Bible in evangelism, the importance of religious liberty to evangelize, the role of divine providence in evangelism, and the Christian's duty to evangelize. Although the four characteristics of evangelicalism set forth by Bebbington do not include other areas of theology important to …
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Piety and politics: Baptist social reform in America, 1770-1860
… By weighing in on the colonization scheme, religious instruction, and abolition. Chapter three examines one of the most significant but least known debates of the antebellum period: the effort to end Sabbath mail delivery. Baptists pressed for a legislative end to a social problem. Not all …
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Religious exemptions from employment discrimination laws: A moral and theological analysis
… Act, as amended, includes an exemption for religious organizations from its prohibitions against employment discrimination on the basis of religion, and the federal courts have imputed an additional exemption with respect to "ministerial" employees on the basis of First Amendment …
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The concept of authorship in the work of Sara Coleridge
… and consist of polemical contributions to religious debate in the two decades following the Reform Act of 1832. In order to analyse the qualities of Coleridge’s mature authorship, this study undertakes the necessary historical and theological contextualization. Coleridge’s …
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Father Andrew White, The Jesuit Order, and the Marketing of Colonial Maryland
… but also provide valuable economic, religious, and legal data about English Catholics. <em>White’s</em> promotion <em>of</em> <em>the</em> colony to <em>the</em> <em>Jesuit</em> <em>Order</em> and <em>the</em> elite British Catholic community reveals underlying patterns <em>of</em> …
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Transatlantic Tales and Democratic Dreams: Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, Alessandro Gavazzi, and the Struggle to Define Republican Liberty in a Revolutionary Age, 1848-1854
… of responsive government, free speech, and religious liberty. The Papal Nuncio's supporters and critics both drew on transatlantic tales and republican visions, casting the "Bedini Affair" as a subversive attack on ultramontane Catholic theology, embarrassing national spectacle, legitimate …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… States for professing to champion civil and religious liberty while carrying out an imperialistic policy abroad. Challenging the popular notions of American exceptionalism and Christian nationalism, Adventists decried the government’s collusion with a politicized religious …
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Reshaping The Theology and Praxis of Inculturation through Interreligious Dialogue Between The Catholic Church and African Traditional Religion in Igboland, Nigeria
… by the expatriate missionaries. The cultural and religious practices in Igboland before the advent of Christianity were negatively labelled as pagan, diabolic, superstitious, and satanic by the missionaries. Thus, interreligious dialogue between the incoming Christian religion and Igbo Traditional …
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