Christianity and Modern Politics (PDF)

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. On Christianity, Civil Religion, and Politics -- Introductory Comments -- On Politics and Power (excerpts) -- Mere Christianity -- Civil Religion in America -- II. The Free Exercise of Religion -- Introductory Comments -- The Origins and Historical Understanding of Free Exercise of Religion -- The Case Against the Constitutionally Compelled Free Exercise Exemption -- III. God and Government: The Establishment Clause -- Introductory Comments -- Forgotten Purposes of the First Amendment Religion Clauses -- The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment -- IV. Religion Clauses and Supreme Court Cases -- Introductory Comments -- Church, State, and the Constitution -- Why 'Separation' is not the Key to Church-State Relations -- Statism, not Separatism, is the Problem -- Freedom and/or Separation: The Constitutional Dilemma of the First Amendment -- Strict Neutrality: The Next Step in First Amendment Development? -- V. Secular Humanism as Religion: The Great Debate -- Introductory Comments -- The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America -- America's Fourth Faith: A Sociological Perspective on Secular Humanism -- The Religion of Secular Humanism: A Judicial Myth -- VI. The Rise of Fundamentalism -- Introductory Comments -- Pietist Politics -- The Fundamentalist Phenomenon -- The Christian Right in Twentieth Century America: Continuity and Change -- The New Puritanism: We Must Say 'No' Again -- Fundamentalism -- VII. War, Peace, and Pacifism -- Introductory Comments -- Various Works -- Summa Theologica -- Whether Soldiers, Too, Can Be Saved -- Institutes of the Christian Religion -- On Beginning War -- Reply to False Accusations -- Why the Christian Church is not Pacifist -- Christianity and Social Problems -- In Defense of Creation -- On Nuclear Morality -- The Use of Force: A Justified Response -- Just Wars and the Burdens of History -- An Imperfectly Just War: Part of the Uncertainty is Factual -- Just War Tradition: Is It Credible? -- VIII. Liberation Theology -- Introductory Comments -- On Liberation Theology (excerpts) -- Two Theologies of Liberation -- Instruction on Certain Aspects of the 'Theology of Liberation' -- Centesimus Annus -- Liberation Theology and the 'New World Order' -- Selected Readings -- Backmatter