The end of secularism
By: Hunter Baker.
Publisher: Crossway Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Wheaton, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433506543
Subjects: Christianity and politics; Christianity and politics -- United States; Church and state; Church and state -- United States; Religion and politics; Secularism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beginning from my story; title: Secularism as an academic subject; title: Understanding secularism; title: Previewing the path of the argument against secularism; title: The early church and the empire; title: The rise of Christianity and the challenge of power; title: From persecuted minority to rule by the Lord's man; title: The religion of the state, but not the state's religion; title: Augustine's state : necessary evil or true justice; title: By what right, by what power?; title: The surprising return of the classical world; title: New winds blowing : two reformers and a schemer; title: Calvin; title: Luther; title: Machiavelli; title: Reformation's wake : uneasy pluralism and social contracts; title: The social contract; title: Hobbes; title: Locke; title: Rousseau; title: American story : religious expatriates, a new world, and awakening; title: The Puritan community; title: Roger Williams; title: Jonathan Edwards, new lights, old lights; title: American awakening; title: France : a different kind of revolution; title: To topple throne and altar; title: Dividing loyalties; title: Goddess reason and the Supreme Being; title: Reconciliation and surging nationalism; title: Analyzing the evolution of church, state, and secularism; title: What is the state?; title: What is the church?; title: Whence comes the power?; title: Secularism emerging through deism; title: The American model, the American controversy; title: What do you mean by Enlightenment?; title: When it was harder to get on the church rolls; title: Awakening to independence; title: Politics and religion; title: Against the Christian nation hypothesis; title: A better understanding; title: Robert Palmer's contribution; title: Religion clause deconstruction and re-orientation; title: What about the no religious test clause?; title: More important, what about the Fourteenth Amendment?; title: American Christianity : triumph and trial; title: Powerful Protestantism; title: And the fall ...; title: The spiritual price of slavery; title: The apparent denouement : the fundamentalist-modernist controversy and the public embarrassment of the Monkey Trial; title: Comeback/re-engagement; title: The old establishment : mainline fade-out; title: Secularism : a failed strategy for social peace; title: The rise and fall of secularization theory; title: Secularization theory and politics; title: A poor strategy for common ground; title: Secularism and postmodernity; title: The secular rawlsian defense; title: Purpose-driven secularism; title: Secularists and their revolution; title: The under-acknowledged secularist demographic; title: The non-uniqueness of theocratic danger; title: System v. lifeworld; title: The department of God; title: Christian self-interest and lessons learned; title: The cautionary tale of Sweden; title: Separation of church and state versus secularism; title: The legend of warfare between science and religion; title: Presenting warfare between science and religion; title: The success of a legend; title: Science and the early church; title: Science and religion in the dark ages; title: Professionalizers of science in the victorian era; title: Darwin in America; title: The knowledge situation; title: Appreciating science; title: Limitations of science; title: Science, ethics, being human; title: Who owns science?; title: Science, secularism, politics; title: Secularists sit one out in the Bible belt; title: Alabama, Jesus, and the tax code; title: Hamill's argument; title: The governor, the churches, and the Christian Coalition; title: Aftermath; title: Application.