Browsing by Author "Hankins, Barry, 1956-"

All truth is God's truth: the life and ideas of Frank E. Gaebelein.

Beck, Albert R.

Frank Gaebelein (1899-1983) was a key figure in the twentieth-century evangelical movement. His greatest impact was felt in the area of Christian education, but he was active in many other issues of concern to evangelicals, ...

American public religion in the religion clause jurisprudences of Felix Frankfurter and Antonin Scalia.

Meadors, David C. (, )

The First Amendment religion clause jurisprudences of two United States Supreme Court justices--Felix Frankfurter and Antonin Scalia--find different forms of American public religion constitutional. Frankfurter's jurisprudence ...

Between isolation and engagement : the history of the Dutch Calvinist school movement in the Netherlands, the United States, and Canada.

Sikkema, David A., 1984-

Over 200,000 Dutch immigrants have settled in Canada since the end of World War II. The Dutch Calvinists within this larger body have largely maintained their distinct religious and ethnic identities through the establishment ...

Bombast, blasphemy, and the bastard gospel: William Stringfellow and American exceptionalism.

Johnston, Marshall Ron.

William Stringfellow (1928-1985) was a Harvard-trained attorney, social critic, and popular theologian. His theology and the social and political critique it engendered were developed against the backdrop of American ...

Christianity, secularism, and America: an exploration and critique of the historical, legal, social, and philosophical implications of secularism from an American perspective.

Baker, Terry Hunter.

The historian C. John Sommerville has invited academics to treat secularism much as they have religion, which means he thinks it should be studied, written about, and taught critically. This dissertation represents an ...

The effects of American fundamentalism on educating towards a virtuous citizenry : the case of C. I. Scofield and Philadelphia Biblical University.

Basie, John D.

From the founding of Harvard in 1636 until the end of nineteenth century, the old-time college model of higher education was pervasive throughout the fledgling American republic. Christian morality was foundational to the ...

Faith seeking understanding: the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy.

Russell, Jeremiah H.

This thesis is a study of the philosophy of Eric Voegelin with particular focus on the relationship between noetic differentiation (particularly Greek philosophy) and pneumatic differentiation (particularly Christianity). ...

God's army: religious conservatives at the 1992 Republican National Convention.

Ellis, Blake.

Before 1992, religious conservatives had been an important voting bloc for Republican presidential candidates. They provided crucial monetary and organizational support, but they were often dissatisfied with their lack ...

James M. Dunn and soul freedom: a paradigm for Baptist political engagement in the public arena.

Weaver, Aaron Douglas.

In the last half of the twentieth century, James Dunn has been the most aggressive Baptist proponent for religious liberty in the United States. As the leader of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, Dunn’s ...

Kingdom of priests or democracy of competent souls? the 'Baptist Manifesto,' John Howard Yoder, and the question of Baptist identity.

Black, Andrew D.

This thesis examines "Re-envisioning Baptist Identity: A Manifesto for Baptist Christians in North America," a statement published by a group of Baptist theologians in 1997. The "Baptifesto," as it has come to be known, ...

"More desired than our owne salvation" : the roots of American Christian affinity for the State of Israel.

Smith, Robert O. (Robert Owen), 1974-

This dissertation seeks to show that popular American affinity for the State of Israel draws from the taproot of apocalyptic hope informing American identity and national vocation from the revolutionary era to the present. ...

Neo-evangelical realism : reflections on the sociopolitical thought of Carl F. H. Henry.

Pruitt, Nicholas T.

Carl F. H. Henry served as a key leader within the neo-evangelical movement in America during the mid-twentieth century and continued to have a prominent role in the greater evangelical movement during the rest of the ...

Patriarchy and politics: a comparative evaluation of the religious, political and social thought of Sir Robert Filmer and Robert Lewis Dabney.

Davenport, R. Dean.

This dissertation examines the religious, political and social thought of Sir Robert Filmer and his influence in early America. Filmer was a seventeenth-century English political theorist whose thought was critiqued by ...

Religious liberty through the lens of textualism and a Living Constitution: the First Amendment Establishment Clause interpretations of Justices William Brennan, Jr. and Antonin Scalia.

Nies, Gregory O.

This paper examines how the jurisprudential visions of United States Supreme Court Justices William Brennan, Jr. and Antonin Scalia guide their interpretations of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. The paper begins ...

Render unto Caesar, render unto God: Texas denominational colleges and universities and the politics of the Civil War era.

Karppi, Daniel G.

This dissertation is a study of church-state relations. Its overarching goal is to illuminate the manner in which religion and government interact. The setting for this study is the Civil War era, which includes the ...

A "scourge and minister" : Lyman Abbott, liberal Protestantism, and American warfare, 1861-1920.

Wetzel, Benjamin James.

Congregationalist minister and editor Lyman Abbott (1835-1922) is best known as a popularizer of modernist theology and as a representative of the Social Gospel movement. Less well understood are Abbott’s political opinions ...

Soviet religion policy through religious dissidents from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev : a comparative study of Aida Skripnikova and Valeri Barinov.

Tapley, Lauren L.

In an attempt to eradicate belief in God and religion from the lives of its citizens, the Soviet Union arrested, tried, and imprisoned thousands of religious believers during its seventy-year reign. Two of the most ...

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