Subsidiarity: The “Other” Ground for Limited Government
Christopher Wolfe, Subsidiarity: The “Other” Ground for Limited Government, in Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy 81-96 (Grasso, Bradley, and Hunt eds., 1995). From the review...
A House Divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran Perspectives on the Sword
David M. Smolin, A House Divided? Anabaptist and Lutheran Perspectives on the Sword, 47 J. Legal Educ. 28 (1997). From Smolin’s introduction: “Christian law teachers deal with one question that would be no different if we taught history or sociology: what does...
We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition
John Courtney Murray, We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition (Sheed and Ward 1960). From the publisher: Murray's...disarmingly lucid and accessible prose has caused his book to be widely cited and celebrated, but it still is not well...
Kingdoms in Conflict
Charles Colson, Kingdoms in Conflict (1987). From the publisher: This bestseller tackles the question: “What does the Bible say, and what do learn from history about the proper relationship between faith and culture?” Note: This book was updated as God and...
On Civil Government
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, On Civil Government, IV.XX (John T. McNeill ed., Ford Lewis Battles trans., Westminster Press 1960) (1559). Book 4, Chapter 20 explores Calvin’s thoughts on who and what Civil Government is, or ought to be, and the...
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