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Book The Life and Times of John Carroll

Download or read book The Life and Times of John Carroll written by Peter Guilday and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and Times of John Carroll

Download or read book Life and Times of John Carroll written by Peter Guilday and published by New York, Encyclopedia P. This book was released on 1922 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Dear Bought Liberty

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  • Author : Michael D. Breidenbach
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-25
  • ISBN : 067424723X
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Our Dear Bought Liberty written by Michael D. Breidenbach and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their churchÕs own traditionsÑrather than Enlightenment liberalismÑto secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life. Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the popeÕs authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church-state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early American Catholic leaders, including Maryland founder Cecil Calvert and members of the prominent Carroll family, relied on the conciliarist tradition to help institute religious toleration, including the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The critical role of Catholics in establishing American churchÐstate separation enjoins us to revise not only our sense of who the American founders were, but also our understanding of the sources of secularism. ChurchÐstate separation in America, generally understood as the product of a Protestant-driven Enlightenment, was in key respects derived from Catholic thinking. Our Dear-Bought Liberty therefore offers a dramatic departure from received wisdom, suggesting that religious liberty in America was not bestowed by liberal consensus but partly defined through the ingenuity of a persecuted minority.

Book The British Are Coming

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  • Author : Rick Atkinson
  • Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 1627790446
  • Pages : 800 pages

Download or read book The British Are Coming written by Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling. Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama.

Book Beyond Toleration

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  • Author : Chris Beneke
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-08-29
  • ISBN : 0199700001
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Beyond Toleration written by Chris Beneke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its founding, the United States was one of the most religiously diverse places in the world. Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, Dutch Reformed, German Reformed, Lutherans, Huguenots, Dunkers, Jews, Moravians, and Mennonites populated the nations towns and villages. Dozens of new denominations would emerge over the succeeding years. What allowed people of so many different faiths to forge a nation together? In this richly told story of ideas, Chris Beneke demonstrates how the United States managed to overcome the religious violence and bigotry that characterized much of early modern Europe and America. The key, Beneke argues, did not lie solely in the protection of religious freedom. Instead, he reveals how American culture was transformed to accommodate the religious differences within it. The expansion of individual rights, the mixing of believers and churches in the same institutions, and the introduction of more civility into public life all played an instrumental role in creating the religious pluralism for which the United States has become renowned. These changes also established important precedents for future civil rights movements in which dignity, as much as equality, would be at stake. Beyond Toleration is the first book to offer a systematic explanation of how early Americans learned to live with differences in matters of the highest importance to them --and how they found a way to articulate these differences civilly. Today when religious conflicts once again pose a grave danger to democratic experiments across the globe, Beneke's book serves as a timely reminder of how one country moved past toleration and towards religious pluralism.

Book The Other Catholics

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  • Author : Julie Byrne
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-24
  • ISBN : 0231541708
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book The Other Catholics written by Julie Byrne and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent study of churches on the fringe that incubate new ideas and shed new light on mainstream religion.”—Times Higher Education Independent Catholics are not formally connected to the pope in Rome. They practice apostolic succession, seven sacraments, and devotion to the saints. But without a pope, they can change quickly and experiment freely—with some affirming communion for the divorced, women’s ordination, clerical marriage, and same-sex marriage. From their early modern origins in the Netherlands to their contemporary proliferation in the United States, these “other Catholics” represent an unusually liberal, mobile, and creative version of America’s largest religion. In The Other Catholics, Julie Byrne shares the remarkable history and current activity of independent Catholics, who number at least two hundred communities and a million members across the United States. She focuses in particular on the Church of Antioch, one of the first Catholic groups to ordain women in modern times. Through archival documents and interviews, Byrne tells the story of the unforgettable leaders and surprising influence of these understudied churches, which, when included in Catholic history, change the narrative arc and total shape of modern Catholicism. As Pope Francis fights to soften Roman doctrines with a pastoral touch and his fellow Roman bishops push back with equal passion, independent Catholics continue to leap ahead of Roman reform, keeping key Catholic traditions but adding a progressive difference. “Byrne’s enlightening research and analysis will undoubtedly raise awareness of these little-known Catholic denominations.”

Book The History of Mother Seton s Daughters  1909 1923

Download or read book The History of Mother Seton s Daughters 1909 1923 written by Mary Agnes McCann and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

Download or read book Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Download or read book The Society for the Propagation of the Faith written by Edward John Hickey and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony

Download or read book The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony written by Mark R. Anderson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unparalleled look at AmericaÍs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada

Book English Convents in Exile  1600 1800  Part II  vol 6

Download or read book English Convents in Exile 1600 1800 Part II vol 6 written by Caroline Bowden and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource.

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appalachia Inside Out  Conflict and change

Download or read book Appalachia Inside Out Conflict and change written by Robert J. Higgs and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes of Appalachia Inside Out constitute the most comprehensive anthology of writings on Appalachia ever assembled. Representing the work of approximately two hundred authors.

Book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired

Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years

Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881 1900

Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881 1900 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: