Disgusted by the apathy and incompetence of his San Francisco hospital's emergency room staff, Dr. Alan Kirk decides to establish a trauma center in the city

Trauma

Literature & Fiction

West, John G.

Fried, John J.

United States

Henry Holt Co.

Macdonald & Co. Ltd.

In recent years, controversies over abortion, school prayer, and religious cults have raised new questions about the delicate balance between church and state, between true believers and civic authority. John West shows that America's Founders had already anticipated and answered such questions by carefully defining religion's proper role in politics. 
West sheds new light on how the Founders tried to solve this fundamental theological-political problem and shows to what extent their solution worked in practice in the early decades of the new nation. West contends that the Founders and their immediate successors encouraged religion to play a dynamic, positive role in politics. This was not surprising, he argues, because in that era both church and state supported civic authority through a shared moral vision. 
This can clearly be seen, West demonstrates, in Christian political activism from the election of 1800 to 1835--a period that witnessed evangelical challenges to Cherokee removal, the delivery of Sunday mail, dueling, and other practices evangelicals deemed inconsistent with the moral order. These reform-minded evangelicals, West argues, were the period's most politically active religious adherents and thus provided the most stringent test of the Founders' attempts to devise a solution to the theological-political problem. 
Illuminating these neglected episodes in the history of religion and politics, West adds enormously to our understanding of early American church-state conflict. As such, his book will be enlightening for anyone interested in the political role of religion in America's past, evangelical religion in contemporary politics, and the current "culture wars." 
This book is part of the American Political Thought series.

The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation

Religion & Spirituality

West, John G., Jr.

Religious Studies

Univ Pr of Kansas

Disgusted by the apathy and incompetence of his San Francisco hospital's emergency room staff, Dr. Alan Kirk decides to establish a trauma center in the city

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Paperjacks

The New Federalist Papers

This book represents perhaps the single most important volume to be published on the Constitution during the Bicentennial. With over sixty contributing authors, it brings together the best of American constitutional scholarship for a comprehensive and provocative discussion of the Constitution's history, its principles and its current meaning. Contributing authors to the book range from historians and political scientists to Congressmen and Supreme Court Justices. Some of the better-known contributors include former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, former Chief Justice Warren Burger, Congressman Philip Crane, lawyer Phillis Schlafly, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Leonard Levy, former United States Senator Eugene McCarthy, and the venerable dean of United States historians, Henry Steele Commager. Most of the articles published in this volume appeared originally as part of the acclaimed New Federalist Papers newspaper series, which has been used by hundreds of newspapers across the country since 1984.The book is arranged into seventeen different sections, each of which focuses on a major constitutional principle or institution. Topic areas include federalism, the separation of powers, Congress, the bureaucracy, the Presidency, the Judiciary, foreign policy, civil rights, economics, constitutional reform, and the relationship between church and state. The sections of the book were designed to parallel the standard subjects covered in an introductory college course. Co-published with Public Research, Syndicated.

History

Mahoney, Dennis J.

Barlow, Jackson J.

Americas

University Press of America

This book represents perhaps the single most important volume to be published on the Constitution during the Bicentennial. With over sixty contributing authors, it brings together the best of American constitutional scholarship for a comprehensive and provocative discussion of the Constitution's history, its principles and its current meaning.

Traipsing into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision is a legal critique of of the factual and legal flaws in Judge John E. Jones III's Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School Board (2005), a controversial district court decision about the teaching of intelligent design in public schools. Jointly authored by David K. DeWolf , John G. West, Casey Luskin, and Jonathan Witt.

Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Decision

Witt, Jonathan

DEWOLF, DAVID K.

Luskin, Casey

World

Discovery Institute Press

Based on six years of original research and extensive interviews with former Disney studio staff, The Disney Live-Action Productions explores the live-action films and television shows of Walt Disney. The book takes the reader "behind the scenes" on such classic productions as Davy Crockett, Mary Poppins, The Parent Trap, Pollyanna, Treasure Island, Zorro, The Absent Minded Professor and many more. In addition, the book includes cast, credit and plot information for 38 live-action features and more than 70 television episodes.

The Disney Live-Action Productions

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Hawthorne & Peabody

Stockholm Syndrome Christianity: Why America’s Christian Leaders Are Failing — and What We Can Do About It

Christian Books & Bibles

Discovery Institute

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