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  • The Politics of the Cross

    A Christian Alternative to Partisanship

    Where do Christians fit in a two-party political system?The partisan divide that is rending the nation is now tearing apart American churches. On one side are Christian Right activists and other conservatives who believe that a vote for a Democratic presidential candidate is a vote for abortion, sexual immorality, gender confusion, and the loss of religious liberty for Christians. On the other ... Read more

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  • Abortion and America's Churches

    A Religious History of "Roe v. Wade"

    Series series Faith, Governance, and Civil Society in American History
    Abortion and America’s Churches explores the surprising history of how American Christians think about abortion.Many people assume that Christians have steadfastly condemned abortion throughout the United States’s history. Daniel K. Williams overthrows all assumptions about the unity, consistency, or simplicity of American Christian thought and belief in this groundbreaking new book. He ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Election of the Evangelical

    Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976

    Series series American Presidential Elections
    From where we stand now, the election of 1976 can look like an alternate reality: southern white evangelicals united with African Americans, northern Catholics, and Jews in support of a Democratic presidential candidate; the Republican candidate, a social moderate whose wife proudly proclaimed her support for Roe v. Wade, was able to win over Great Plains farmers as well as cultural liberals in ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • God's Own Party

    The Making of the Christian Right

    When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked. But, as God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes back much farther than most journalists, political scientists, and historians realize. Relying on extensive archival and primary source research, Daniel K. Williams presents the first comprehensive history ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Search for a Rational Faith

    Reason and Belief in the History of American Christianity

    The Enlightenment and Darwinism posed threats to traditional Christianity. So why have so many highly educated Americans remained committed believers? The Search for a Rational Faith challenges popular theories of secularization with a sweeping 400-year history of Anglo-American Protestant defenses of the Christian faith. Through a detailed study of the arguments of those who found Christian faith ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Defenders of the Unborn

    The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade

    On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far from a bunch of fire-breathing culture warriors. In Defenders of the Unborn, Daniel K. Williams reveals the ... Read more

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  • The Right Side of the Sixties

    Reexamining Conservatism’s Decade of Transformation

    Series series History (R0)
    The 1960s were a transformative era for American politics, but much is still unknown about the growth of conservatism during the period when it was radically reshaped and became the national political force that it is today. In their efforts to chronicle the national politicians and organizations that led the movement, previous histories have often neglected local perspectives, the role of ... Read more

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    Serving the Nation by Living our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life

    “People who take God seriously will not remain silent about their faith. They will often disagree about doctrine or policy, but they won’t be quiet. They can’t be. They’ll act on what they believe, sometimes at the cost of their reputations and careers. Obviously the common good demands a respect for other people with different beliefs and a willingness to compromise whenever possible. But for ... Read more

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  • How Democracies Die

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The urgent and influential guide to the forces that have undermined democracies across the globe—forces running rampant in the United States today—hailed as “a touchstone” (The New Yorker) that “comes at exactly the right moment” (The Washington Post)“Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)“[Levitsky and ... Read more

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  • Christianity and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of dignity, equality, liberty and democracy that ground the modern human rights paradigm. Christianity also helped shape the law of public, private, penal, and procedural rights that anchor modern legal systems in the West and beyond. This ... Read more

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  • Christianity's Dangerous Idea

    The Protestant Revolution—A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First

    "An original and important book. . . . [T]he most readable introduction to the history, theology and present-day practices of Protestantism." — Publishers WeeklyA New Interpretation of Protestantism and Its Impact on the WorldThe radical idea that individuals could interpret the Bible for themselves spawned a revolution that is still being played out on the world stage today. This innovation lies ... Read more

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  • Daughters of the Church

    Women and ministry from New Testament times to the present

    Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years of church history. It tells of events and aspirations, determination and disappointment, patience and achievement that mark the history of daughters of the church from the time of Jesus to the present. The authors have endeavored to present an objective story. The very ... Read more

    $10.99 USD