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What's God got to do with the American experiment?
Title:
What's God got to do with the American experiment?
Author:
Dionne, E. J., Jr.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
xvii, 188 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
God and the American experiment : an introduction / E.J. Dionne, Jr. and John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- America's ever-changing religious landscape / Richard N. Ostling -- America's changing political and moral values / Robert J. Blendon ... [et al.] -- The conservative Protestant family : traditional rhetoric, progressive practice / W. Bradford Wilcox and John P. Bartkowski -- A screwtape letter for the twenty-first century : what a senior devil might think about religion and politics / Peter Wehner -- First trombone / Taylor Branch -- Blinded by might : the problem with heaven on earth / Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson -- Progressive politics and visions--and, uh, well--God / Richard Parker -- Learning from Nehemiah / Kurt L. Schmoke -- Having faith in our neighborhoods : the front porch alliance / Stephen Goldsmith -- Conscience and the public square : heeding the still, small voice / Patrick Glynn -- WWJD? / Staci Simmons -- Judging the president / Alan Wolfe -- A response to Alan Wolfe / Max L. Stackhouse -- The Clinton scandal and the culture of the therapeutic / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Errant evangelical? : a presidential counselor in the line of fire / Tony Campolo -- The third stage : new frontiers of religious liberty / E.J. Dionne, Jr. -- Supporting Black churches : faith, outreach, and the inner-city poor / John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- "No aid to religion?" charitable choice and the first amendment / Ronald J. Sider and Heidi Rolland Unruh -- The wrong way to do right : a challenge to charitable choice / Melissa Rogers -- What's an FBO? / Jim Wallis -- Our hidden safety net / Ram Cnaan and Gaynor I. Yancey -- Religion and public life / James Q. Wilson.
ISBN:
9780815718697
Format :
Book