Slaying Leviathan

Slaying Leviathan
Title Slaying Leviathan PDF eBook
Author Leslie Carbone
Publisher Potomac Books, Inc.
Pages 259
Release 2009
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 159797627X

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Explores the moral dimension of tax policy and calls for a fundamental tax reform

Slaying Leviathan

Slaying Leviathan
Title Slaying Leviathan PDF eBook
Author Glenn S. Sunshine
Publisher
Pages 184
Release 2021
Genre Christianity and politics
ISBN 9781952410727

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"Christians first expressed these political truths under Caesars, kings, popes, and emperors. We need them in the age of presidents. Leviathan is rising again, and the first weapon we must recover is the longstanding Christian tradition of resisting governmental overreach. Our bloated bureaucratic state would have been unrecognizable to the Founders, and our acquiescence to its encroachments on liberty would have infuriated them. But here is the point: our Leviathan would not have surprised them. They were well acquainted with the tendency of governments to turn tyrannical: "Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty." In Slaying Leviathan, historian Glenn S. Sunshine surveys some of the stories and key elements of Christian political thought from Augustine to the Declaration of Independence. Specifically, the book introduces theories of limited government that were synthesized into a coherent political philosophy by John Locke. Locke, of course, influenced the American founders and was, like us, fighting against the spirit of Leviathan in his day. But his is only one of the many stories in this book"--

Law and Leviathan

Law and Leviathan
Title Law and Leviathan PDF eBook
Author Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 209
Release 2020-09-15
Genre Law
ISBN 0674247531

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From two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy increasingly derided as “the deep state.” Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number of principles that underlie this moral regime. Officials who respect that morality never fail to make rules in the first place. They ensure transparency, so that people are made aware of the rules with which they must comply. They never abuse retroactivity, so that people can rely on current rules, which are not under constant threat of change. They make rules that are understandable and avoid issuing rules that contradict each other. These principles may seem simple, but they have a great deal of power. Already, without explicit enunciation, they limit the activities of administrative agencies every day. But we can aspire for better. In more robust form, these principles could address many of the concerns that have critics of the administrative state mourning what they see as the demise of the rule of law. The bureaucratic Leviathan may be an inescapable reality of complex modern democracies, but Sunstein and Vermeule show how we can at last make peace between those who accept its necessity and those who yearn for its downfall.

Slaying the Dragon

Slaying the Dragon
Title Slaying the Dragon PDF eBook
Author Bernard Frank Batto
Publisher Westminster John Knox Press
Pages 264
Release 1992-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780664253530

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"Batto argues persuasively that biblical authors, like other ancient Near Eastern authors, used mythic traditions in composing their new syntheses. . . . His bold argument is impressive".--Richard J. Clifford, Professor of Old Testament, Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Leviathan

Leviathan
Title Leviathan PDF eBook
Author Thomas Hobbes
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 418
Release 2012-10-03
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 048612214X

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Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Father Hunger

Father Hunger
Title Father Hunger PDF eBook
Author Douglas Wilson
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 263
Release 2012
Genre Religion
ISBN 1595554769

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Filled with practical ideas and self-evaluation tools, Father Hunger both encourages and challenges men to "embrace the high calling of fatherhood," becoming the dads that their families and our culture so desperately need them to be.

Why You Think the Way You Do

Why You Think the Way You Do
Title Why You Think the Way You Do PDF eBook
Author Glenn S. Sunshine
Publisher Zondervan Academic
Pages 242
Release 2009-08-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 0310323541

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How do we come by our worldviews and philosophies? What impact did Christianity have on the worldviews that are common to Western civilization? Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world. Professor and historian Glenn S. Sunshine demonstrates the decisive impact that the growth of Christianity had in transforming the outlook of pagan Roman culture into one that—based on biblical concepts of humanity and its relationship with God—established virtually all the positive aspects of Western civilization. The two-pronged assault in our time on the biblically based worldview by postmodern philosophy and the writings of neo-atheists has made it even more crucial that we acknowledge and defend its historical roots. This authoritative, accessible survey discusses Western worldviews as a continuous narrative rather than as simply a catalogue of ideas. Why You Think the Way You Do: Traces the effects that changes in worldview had on society. Helps you understand your own worldview and those of other people. Helps you recognize the ways that your worldview, philosophies, beliefs, and presuppositions affect the way you think about everything.