With God in America
Title | With God in America PDF eBook |
Author | Walter J. Ciszek |
Publisher | Loyola Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780829444544 |
With God in America is a collection of previously unpublished writings on Walter Ciszek, SJ's, post-imprisonment life and thoughts.
One Nation Under God
Title | One Nation Under God PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin M. Kruse |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2015-04-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465040640 |
The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. To fight the "slavery" of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for "freedom under God" that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was "one nation under God." Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.
Walking with God in America
Title | Walking with God in America PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781404105133 |
Photographs of American landscapes and other sites, complimented by inspirational quotes.
Searching for God in America
Title | Searching for God in America PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Hewitt |
Publisher | W Publishing Group |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
A treasury of insights into the nature of faith.
Rediscovering God in America
Title | Rediscovering God in America PDF eBook |
Author | Newt Gingrich |
Publisher | Center Street |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2016-05-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1455595772 |
In this New York Times bestseller, join Newt and Callista Gingrich on a walking tour of Washington, D.C. and learn about the great people, events, and ideas that shaped the religious founding of America. Explore the architecture and beauty of America's capital with Newt and Callista Gingrich. You'll tour Washington, D.C. to view the nation's monuments and memorials, including the United States Capitol and the National Archives, where Thomas Jefferson's immortal words jump off the page. But this is not just a walking tour; this is a tour of American history -- of the patriotic founders who were shaped by the fervent belief that America is one nation under God. With this guide, you'll rediscover the soul of our country and find a profound path of discovery and renewal.
The Kingdom of God in America
Title | The Kingdom of God in America PDF eBook |
Author | H. Richard Niebuhr |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1988-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780819562227 |
The classic reflection of the Protestant roots and ethos behind pluralistic American and its religions today. Martin Marty, in his new introduction for the Wesleyan reissue of H. Richard Niebuhr's The Kingdom of God in America, calls it "a classic." First published in 1938, "It remains the classic reflection of the Protestant roots and ethos behind pluralistic America and its religions today." Marty notes that the new "raw and rich pluralism" that challenges the Protestant hegemony in American life has left many Protestants longing to "get back to their roots." Niebuhr's book , perhaps more than any other, identifies and describes those roots for Protestants, especially Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Quakers, Baptists, and Lutherans. Introduction by Martin E. Marty.
With God on Our Side
Title | With God on Our Side PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Weinstein |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2013-12-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1466859970 |
One of the most elite educational institutions in the world, the Air Force Academy has, from its inception, attracted the best and the brightest, producing leaders not only in the military but throughout American society. In recent years, however, the Academy has also been producing a cadre of zealous evangelical Christians intent on creating a fundamentalist power base at the highest levels of our country. With God on Our Side is shocking exposé of life inside the United States Air Force Academy and the systematic program of indoctrination sanctioned, coordinated, and carried out by fundamentalist Christians within the U.S. military. It is also the story of Michael L. Weinstein, a proud Academy graduate and the father of two graduates and a current cadet, who single-handedly brought to light the evangelicals' utter disregard of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state that is so essential to the nation's military mission. Weinstein's war would pit him and his small band of fellow graduates, cadets, and concerned citizens against a program of Christian fundamentalist indoctrination that could transform our fighting men and women into "right-thinking" warriors more befitting a theocracy. In the process, he would come face to face with religious bigotry and at its most extreme and fight an unrelenting battle to save his beloved Academy, the ideals it stood for, and the very future of the country. An important book at a critical time in our nation's history, With God on Our Side is the story of one man's courageous struggle to thwart a creeping evangelism permeating America's military and to prevent a taxpayer-funded theocracy in which only the true believers have power.