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"The strong right arm that holds for peace": how Americans learned to stop resisting and love national idolatry
The body politic of the U.S.A. simultaneously embraces the legal separation of the state from any ecclesiastical body; the prominent embrace of the Bible and, especially, the Ten Commandments as definitive touchstones for spiritual and ethical life; and also the sanctity of the U.S. flag and its embodiments. The essay displays ways that these mutually-contradictory currents interweave and cross in an intractable ideological muddl
"The strong right arm that holds for peace": how Americans learned to stop resisting and love national idolatry
The body politic of the U.S.A. simultaneously embraces the legal separation of the state from any ecclesiastical body; the prominent embrace of the Bible and, especially, the Ten Commandments as definitive touchstones for spiritual and ethical life; and also the sanctity of the U.S. flag and its embodiments. The essay displays ways that these mutually-contradictory currents interweave and cross in an intractable ideological muddl
Reading Scripture With the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation
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Reading Scripture With the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation
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