Résultats pour "Liberty" dans Histoire

Fire At The Founding documents the noble influence of Christianclergy, in their own words, and the Judeo-Christian faith in the UnitedStates during the 1700s. These pastors were America’s true FoundingFathers. They built essential foundations for liberty: true religion,righteousness, morality, culture of life, respect for authority and ruleof law, just and limited civil government. The holy fire within themignited a fire for truth and liberty within the American people. Theirwisdom was hidden from us, but now is made known.

The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on Spanish and Latin American actors, Pamela Voekel argues that at the heart of this nineteenth-century transformation in Spanish America was a transatlantic Catholic civil war.

Scholars and popular authors regularly claim that Christianity, at least orthodox Christianity, has fostered oppression and intolerance. A common narrative is that liberty and equality have been advanced primarily when America's leaders embrace progressive manifestations of religion or reject faith altogether. This book demonstrates that Christianity is responsible for advancing liberty and equality for all citizens.