Freedom's Holy Light: American Identity and the Future of Theology |
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... human liberties abroad in totalitarian regimes , whether communist or personal - authoritarian , derives from the idolatrous concept of the state as the source of human rights . The only ultimately valid anchor for human rights and ...
... human liberties abroad in totalitarian regimes , whether communist or personal - authoritarian , derives from the idolatrous concept of the state as the source of human rights . The only ultimately valid anchor for human rights and ...
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... human society is to continue on this continent and in the world . As Christian communities fostering an ecumenism that is universally human as well as ecclesiological , we need to ask this nation whether its worship of power and wealth ...
... human society is to continue on this continent and in the world . As Christian communities fostering an ecumenism that is universally human as well as ecclesiological , we need to ask this nation whether its worship of power and wealth ...
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... human person in his so - called nature mysticism . Nature for Thoreau is not escapism from the human situation but an encounter with the moral and the human when the human is perceived as part of nature . As Thoreau says in his Journal ...
... human person in his so - called nature mysticism . Nature for Thoreau is not escapism from the human situation but an encounter with the moral and the human when the human is perceived as part of nature . As Thoreau says in his Journal ...
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CHAPTER 3 | 26 |
Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
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