The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation

by John G. West Jr.

Book Overview

In recent years, controversies over abortion, school prayer, and religious cults have raised new questions about the delicate balance between church and state, between true believers and civic authority. John West shows that America's Founders had already anticipated and answered such questions by carefully defining religion's proper role in politics.

West sheds new light on how the Founders tried to solve this fundamental theological-political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700611169
• ISBN13: 9780700611164
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"