Download or read book Testing the National Covenant written by William F. May and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the country’s market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current anxieties and appetites? Ethicist William F. May draws on America’s religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country—contractual and covenantal. He contends that the biblical idea of a covenant offers a more promising way than the language of contract, grounded in self-interest alone, to contain our runaway anxieties and appetites. A covenantal sensibility affirms, “We the people (not simply, We the individuals, or We the interest groups) of the United States.” It presupposes a history of mutual giving and receiving and of bearing with one another that undergirds all the traffic in buying and selling, arguing and negotiating, that obtain in the rough terrain of politics. May closes with an account of the covenantal agenda ahead, and concludes with the vexing issue of immigrants and undocumented workers that has singularly tested the covenant of this immigrant nation.
Download or read book A Facsimile of the Test Oath Denouncing the National Covenant of 1638 with Signatories written by and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Covenant Questions written by National Covenant Committee (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolutionary England and the National Covenant written by Edward Vallance and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the importance of oaths, and the taking of, and the idea of national covenants during a turbulent time in English history. This book studies the oaths and covenants taken during the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century, a time of great religious and political upheaval, assessing their effect and importance. From the reign of Mary I to the Exclusion crisis, Protestant writers argued that England was a nation in covenant with God and urged that the country should renew its contract with the Lord through taking solemn oaths. In so doing, they radically modified understandings of monarchy, political allegiance and the royal succession. During the civil war, the tendering of oaths of allegiance, the Protestation of 1641 and the Vow and Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 (all describedas embodiments of England's national covenant) also extended the boundaries of the political nation. The poor and illiterate, women as well as men, all subscribed to these tests of loyalty, which were presented as social contracts between the Parliament and the people. The Solemn League and Covenant in particular continued to provoke political controversy after 1649 and even into the 1690s many English Presbyterians still viewed themselves as bound by itsterms; the author argues that these covenants had a significant, and until now unrecognised, influence on 'politics-out-of-doors' in the eighteenth century. EDWARD VALLANCE is Lecturer in Early Modern British History, University of Liverpool.
Download or read book Jonathan Edwards s Bible written by Stephen R. C. Nichols and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England colonial pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) was well aware of the threat that Deist philosophy posed to the unity of the Bible as Christian Scriptures, yet remarkably, his own theology of the Bible has never before been examined.In the context of his entire corpus this study pays particular attention to the detailed notes Edwards left for "The Harmony of the Old and New Testament," a "great work" hitherto largely ignored by scholars. Following examination of his "Harmony" notes, a case study of salvation in the Old Testament challenges the current "dispositional" account of Edwards's soteriology and argues instead that the colonial Reformed theologian held there to be one object of saving faith in Old and New Testaments, namely, Christ.
Download or read book A Letter to the Rev M Murray Glasgow Showing that the Principles of Original Seceders in Relation to National Covenants Grounds of Ecclesiastical Separation and Exclusive Denominational Communion are Untenable written by Benjamin Laing and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cracking the AP European History Exam written by Kenneth Pearl and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2010 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews subjects on the test, offers tips on test-taking strategies, and includes two full-length practice exams with answers and explanations.
Download or read book Cracking the AP European History Exam 2013 Edition written by Kenneth Pearl, Ph.D. and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews subjects on the test, offers tips on test-taking strategies, and includes two full-length practice exams with answers and explanations.
Download or read book The Story of the Scottish Covenants in Outline written by David Hay Fleming and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This incredible history presents a precise overview of the events of 17th-Century Scotland. The author, David Hay Fleming, delivered an accurate report on The National Covenant (1638) and the Solemn League and Covenant (1643), the defining agreements of two different phases of the mid‐17th‐century Covenanting Revolution. The National Covenant was signed by the people of Scotland in 1638, resisting the suggested reforms of the Church of Scotland by King Charles I. On the other hand the Solemn League and Covenant was an agreement between the Scottish Covenanters and the heads of the English Parliamentarians in 1643 during the First English Civil War. Fleming included the names of the famous personalities linked with the events and the several places and dates of their occurrence. In addition, he wrote several unknown facts about the subject that keep the readers curious throughout. It's a perfect read for history beginners and enthusiasts.
Download or read book The Catholic Presbyterian written by William Garden Blaikie and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cracking the AP European History Exam 2019 Edition written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make sure you’re studying with the most up-to-date prep materials! Look for The Princeton Review’s Cracking the AP European History Exam 2020 (ISBN: 9780525568261, on-sale August 2019). Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality or authenticity, and may not include access to online tests or materials included with the original product.
Download or read book Introducing Covenant Theology written by Michael Horton and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unwinds the intricacies of covenant theology, making the complex surprisingly simple and accessible to every reader.
Download or read book The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant 1660 1696 written by James Walters and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the form and function of the Covenants were shorn of religious implications and repurposed, serving a pluralistic vision of the role of religion in politics and public life. Until now, scholarship on the Covenants has mainly focussed on their role in the conflicts of the 1640s, with discussion of the Covenants after 1660 mostly limited to the context of violent Scottish radicalism. This book moves beyond a rigid focus on Scotland to explore the legacy of the Covenants in England. It examines the discourse surrounding key events in the Restoration period and traces the influence of the Covenants in the context of radical Presbyterianism, and in mainstream debates around politics, church government, and the constitution of the British kingdoms. The Covenants continued to have relevance in two primary respects. Firstly, the Covenants were used as reference points for discussing the competing legacies of the English and Scottish Reformations and the confused issues of church and state that defined the Restoration period. Furthermore, the form of the Covenants as solemn individual subscriptions to a constitutional and religious model, and the political ideas that underpinned them, were emulated by those seeking to resist royal authority during the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-81, and during the events surrounding the Revolution of 1688. Thus, this book holds particular interest for students of constitutionalism, legal pluralism or civil religion in seventeenth-century Britain, and for those seeking to deepen their understanding of the intellectual origins of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Revolution of 1688-9.
Download or read book Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel written by Daniel Elazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first volume of a trilogy, Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant, the tradition that has adhered to that idea, and the political arrangements that flow from it, Among the topics covered are covenant as a political concept, the Bible as a political commentary, the post-biblical tradition, medieval covenant theory, and Jewish political culture.
Download or read book Alexander and Rufus written by John Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cracking the AP European History Exam 2012 Edition written by Kenneth Pearl, Ph.D. and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews subjects on the test, offers tips on test-taking strategies, and includes two full-length practice exams with answers and explanations.
Download or read book Testing the Medical Covenant written by William F. May and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William F. May, a leading expert on medical ethics, here explores two of today's most crucial tests of the medical covenant - active euthanasia and health care reform.May begins with an incisive introduction that delineates the covenantal, or relational, nature of the practice of medicine over against the merely contractual view - the quid pro quos of the commercial buying and selling of professional services. In the subsequent chapters, May follows the implications of the medical covenant with respect to the related issues of euthanasia and health care reform. He also provides a covenantal view of professional character and virtue - what virtues we should look for in covenanted physicians and nurses - discusses the limits of the medical covenant in the face of medical futility, and examines the implications of covenant keeping for the shape of future health care reform.
