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  • 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 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment

    by John Witte, Jr., Joel A. Nichols ...
    This accessible introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors provide extensive analysis of the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and the plausible original intent or understanding of the founders. They describe the enduring principles of American religious freedom--liberty of conscience, free ... Read more

    $44.09 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

  • The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy

    by John Witte, Jr ...
    Series series Law and Christianity
    For more than 2,500 years, the Western tradition has embraced monogamous marriage as an essential institution for the flourishing of men and women, parents and children, society and the state. At the same time, polygamy has been considered a serious crime that harms wives and children, correlates with sundry other crimes and abuses, and threatens good citizenship and political stability. The West ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • 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

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christianity and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Edited by John Witte, Jr, Frank S. Alexander ...
    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

    $36.09 USD

  • Religion and the New Republic

    Faith in the Founding of America

    by Daniel L. Driesbach, Mark A. Noll, Catherine A. Brekus, James Hutson, John Witte Jr., Thomas E. Buckley, Michael Novak ...
    A collection of the country's most respected historians, philosophers, and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States. This collection of never before published essays, originally delivered at the Library of Congress, presents the most original and recent scholarship on a topic that still generates considerable controversy. Anyone interested in colonial history, ... Read more

    $55.09 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

  • No Establishment of Religion

    America's Original Contribution to Religious Liberty

    Edited by T. Jeremy Gunn, John Witte, Jr. ...
    The First Amendment guarantee that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths. The exact meaning and application of this American innovation, however, has always proved elusive. Individual states found it difficult to remove traditional laws ... Read more

    $35.99 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

  • Religion and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Edited by John Witte, Jr., M. Christian Green ...
    The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD