Contemporaries and historians have found it difficult to interpret the ambiguous relationship between National Socialism and Christianity. Both the Catholic and Protestant Churches tended to agree with National Socialists in their authoritarianism, their attacks on socialism and communism, and their campaign against the Versailles Treaty; but the doctrinal position of the Churches could not be reconciled with the principle of racism, a foreign policy of unlimited aggressive warfare, or a domestic agenda involving the complete subservience of Church to State. Important sections of the Nazi Party sought the complete extirpation of Christianity and its substitution by a purely racial religion, but considerations of expediency made it impossible for the National Socialist leadership to adopt this radical anti-Christian stance as official policy. The Kulturkampf Newsletters, which have not appeared in English since the 1930s, were produced by German Catholic exiles in France. They scrupulously document the tensions between various strands of Nazi policy, and the nature of the policy eventually adopted: this was to reduce the Churches' influence in all areas of public life through the use of every available means, yet without provoking the difficulties - diplomatic as well as domestic - which an openly declared war of extermination might have caused.
In the novel , George Darroch has sided with the Evangelicals in their protest to the government in 1842 over the right of the Church ' to be spiritually independent of the secular power . ' The central section of the novel is taken up ...
This volume explores the scope and character of religious freedom for Russia's diverse non-Orthodox religions during the tzarist regime.
Bloch, like other representatives of French Jewry, believed that Judaism, unlike Christianity, was flexible on the church–state question and consistent with a moderate republican approach. The church, claimed Bloch, only invoked the ...
The book was not a new presidential biography or a history of the recently completed World War II; rather, it was Church and State in the United States, written by Anson Phelps Stokes, Canon of the National Cathedral of the Episcopal ...
-- Mark A. Noll, author of Religion and American Politics. "This keenly revisionist analysis enriches our understanding of the period. It deserves a wide readership". -- John B. Boles, author of The Great Revival, 1787-1805.
This book also covers the role of religion in specific areas of law such as contracts, taxation, employment, land use regulation, torts, criminal law, and domestic relations as well as in specialized contexts such as prisons and the ...
Ernst Büttner , “ Der Krieg des Markgrafen Albrecht Alcibiades in Franken 1552–1555 , " AO 23 ( 1908 ) : 18-21 ; Kneitz , Albrecht Alcibiades , 51-53 ; Luttenberger , Glaubenseinheit und Reichsfriede , 375 , 380 ; Horst Rabe ...
The purpose of this dissertation is threefold: (1) to provide a historical context that emphasizes the interaction of religion and politics from the Henrician schism (1534) to the call of the Westminster Assembly (1643); (2) to examine ...
Adam Smith , in 1776 , published his Wealth of Nations . According to college professor Robert Heilbroner , Smith's book attempted to formulate the laws of the market : “ What he sought was ' the invisible hand , ' as he called it ...
What Would Jesus Do?: A Reply to the Occupy Movement