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  • Bookstore Clerks & Significant Others

    Tsunami Press 1

    by Scott Landfield, S. G. Ellerhoff, D. S. Rhodes, Jenny Root, Michael McGriff, Matthew Dickman, Meli Hull, Elly Bookman, Kelsey Yoder, Mose Tuzik Mosley, Bronwynn Dean, Emily Poole, Bob Craven, Valerie Ihsan, Ken Babbs, Deb Casey, Brian Cutean, Cecelia Hagen, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jorah LaFleur, Dorianne Laux, Carter McKenzie, Joseph Millar, Erik Muller, Eve Müller, Maxine Scates, Tom A. Titus, John Witte ...
    Series Book 1 - Tsunami Press
    Fiction, poetry, prose, and illustration by fourteen Tsunami Books clerks and fourteen significant others. A retrospective, a showcase, and a thank you to the people who, for twenty-seven years, have helped build an independent bookstore and community events center in Eugene, Oregon—and now, also, a new press in a new era. After a quarter century of bookselling and hard-won stewardship, our ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One

    From John Locke to Thomas Jefferson—The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Chattel Slavery in the UK and the US

    by George Walters-Sleyon ...
    The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One is the first of two volumes. It explores the Transatlantic slave trade and its mutation into chattel slavery. Volume One focuses on the involvement of two prominent Enlightenment philosophers as the architects of the political, legal, economic, and philosophical justifications for the human trade in the United Kingdom and the United States: John Locke (1632 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment

    by John Witte, Joel A. Nichols, Richard W. Garnett ...
    This accessible and authoritative introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors analyze closely the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and describe the unique and enduring principles of the American experiment in religious freedom - liberty of conscience, free exercise of religion, religious ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Law and the Bible

    Justice, Mercy and Legal Institutions

    Edited by Robert Franklin Cochran, David VanDrunen ...
    The Bible is full of law.Yet too often, Christians either pick and choose verses out of context to bolster existing positions, or assume that any moral judgment the Bible expresses should become the law of the land. Law and the Bible asks: What inspired light does the Bible shed on Christians? participation in contemporary legal systems? It concludes that more often than not the Bible overturns ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom

    Human Rights in the United States and Europe

    by John Witte Jr, Andrea Pin ...
    Series series Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government Series
    The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom documents the essential interdependence of human rights and religious freedom in the West, from antiquity to the present.In The Legal Foundations of Religious Freedom, authors John Witte Jr. and Andrea Pin explore the Christian and secular origins of rights in the Western legal tradition and the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Uncivil Disobedience

    Theological Perspectives

    by David M. Gides, Nick Braune, Joan Braune, Joshua W. Carpenter, André Gagné, Ryan R. Gladwin, Jordan E. Miller, Anna Floerke Scheid, Matthew A. Shadle, Matthew J. Tuininga0, Candice Delmas1, Michael Laffin2, John Witte Jr.3 ...
    This book addresses the need for theological reflection on uncivil disobedience. Existing scholarship in theology and politics mostly treats church-state relations theoretically, with studies in non-violent resistance or civil disobedience, or in other ways largely assuming traditional forms of governance and means of protest—all while paying little to no attention to post-modern political ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law

    Edited by John Witte, Jr., Rafael Domingo ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This volume tells the story of the interaction between Christianity and law-historically and today, in the traditional heartlands of Christianity and around the globe. Sixty new chapters by leading scholars provide authoritative and accessible accounts of foundational Christian teachings on law and legal thought over the past two millennia; the current interaction and contestation of law and ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • The Blessings of Liberty

    Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition

    by John Witte, Jr. ...
    Series series Law and Christianity
    Leading legal scholar John Witte, Jr. explores the role religion played in the development of rights in the Western legal tradition and traces the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom norms in modern domestic and international law. He examines how US courts are moving towards greater religious freedom, while recent decisions of the pan-European courts in Strasbourg and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • On Charity & Justice

    by Abraham Kuyper, Jordan Ballor, Melvin Flikkema ...
    Series series Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology
    Kuyper on a Theological Approach to JusticeIn this anthology of articles and reflections, Kuyper articulates a Christian vision for engaging with society. Though his analysis was intended for his late-nineteenth-century Dutch context, his thoughts remain strikingly relevant for Christians living in the modern world. For Kuyper, God's law preserved civil justice, making humane life possible. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Sex, Marriage, and Family in World Religions

    Edited by Don Browning, M. Christian Green, John Witte Jr. ...
    Spanning thousands of years, this new collection brings together writings and teachings about sex, marriage, and family from the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian traditions. The volume includes traditional texts as well as contemporary materials showing how the religions have responded to the changing conditions and mores of modern life. It reveals the similarities and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Founders on God and Government

    by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Thomas E. Buckley, S J, Mark David Hall, Howard L. Lubert, Vincent Philip Muñoz, Barry Alan Shain0, Garrett Ward Sheldon1, James R. Stoner2, John Witte Jr.3 ...
    "In God We Trust?" The separation of church and state is a widely contested topic in the American political arena. Whether for or against, debaters frequently base their arguments in the Constitution and the principles of the American founding. However, Americans' perception of the founding has narrowed greatly over the years, focusing on a handful of eminent statesmen.By exploring the work of ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Church, State, and Family

    Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties

    by John Witte, Jr. ...
    Series series Law and Christianity
    This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While applauding modern sexual freedoms, John Witte, Jr also defends the traditional Western teaching that the marital family is an essential cradle of conscience, chrysalis of care, and cornerstone of ordered liberty. He thus urges churches, states, and other social institutions to protect and promote the ... Read more

    $47.59 USD