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EBOOK Religious Roots of the First Amendment:Dissenting Protestants and the Separation of Church and
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199942800
EAN: 3A146223EB
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Stron: 272
Data wydania: 2012
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Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state        rest on assumptions about 'Enlightenment' and the republican ethos of citizenship.          Nicholas Miller does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment and        enrich it by recovering its cultural and discursive religious contexts -        specifically the discourse of Protestant dissent. He argues that commitments by        certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of        Biblical interpretation, an outgrowth of the doctrine of the priesthood of all        believers, helped promote religious disestablishment in the early modern West. This        movement climaxed in the disestablishment of religion in the early American colonies        and nation. Miller identifies a continuous strand of this religious thought from the        Protestant Reformation, across Europe, through the English Reformation, Civil War,        and Restoration, into the American colonies. He examines seven key thinkers who        played a major role in the development of this religious trajectory as it came to        fruition in American political and legal history: William Penn, John Locke, Elisha        Williams, Isaac Backus, William Livingston, John Witherspoon, and James Madison.          Miller shows that the separation of church and state can be read, most persuasively,        as the triumph of a particular strand of Protestant nonconformity - that which        stretched back to the Puritan separatist and the Restoration sects, rather than to        those, like Presbyterians, who sought to replace the 'wrong' church establishment        with their own, 'right' one. The Religious Roots of the First Amendment contributes        powerfully to the current trend among some historians to rescue the        eighteenth-century clergymen and religious controversialists from the enormous        condescension of posterity.

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