Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land

How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans

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<b><i>Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land</i> demonstrates that Christianity is responsible for advancing liberty and equality for all Americans.</b><br><br>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.<br> <br> <i>Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land</i> demonstrates that Christianity is responsible for advancing liberty and equality for all citizens. Throughout American history, Christians have been motivated by their faith to create fair and just institutions, fight for political freedom, oppose slavery, and secure religious liberty for all.<br> <br> The <i>New York Times</i>’s 1619 Project is only a recent and prominent manifestation of the tendency of journalists, academics, and popular writers to portray American Christianity as a force of oppression and intolerance. Without shying away from the ways in which the Christian faith has been used to defend and even encourage harmful practices, <i>Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land</i> shows that it has far more often been a force for good.<br> <br> From the American Puritans—who created some of the most republican and free institutions the world had ever seen—to America’s founders’ opposition to slavery, to contemporary Christian legal advocacy groups that fight to protect religious liberty for everyone, this volume offers an important corrective to those who would downplay the role Christianity has played in advancing liberty and equality for all citizens.

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EAN

9781637587232

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

208 x 138 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Knox Press