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  • Forces of Secularity in the Modern World

    Volume 1

    Series Book 11 - Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Stephen Strehle is a leading scholar of church/state issues. In this volume, he focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen upon a topic of great interest today and source of cultural wars around the globe—the process of secularization. The book starts with a discussion of early capitalism and how it saw the real world functioning well-enough on its own principles of ... Read more

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  • The Egalitarian Spirit of Christianity

    The Sacred Roots of American and British Government

    Religion no longer plays a dominant role in the everyday consciousness of modern Western society. Few people recognize the underlying role of religious beliefs and practices in their life choices. Stephen Strehle shows the significance and ongoing influence of religion in contemporary life by revealing the sacred roots of modern political ideas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He ... Read more

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  • Forces of Secularity in the Modern World

    Volume 2

    Series Book 14 - Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Stephen Strehle continues his detailed analysis of the secular forces that shape the modern world in this second and final volume to the study, offering a fresh perspective and solid philosophical, theological, and historical conclusions from his years of research. He continues to find forces of secularity embodied in social or political institutions, cultural dispositions or interests, and new or ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Christian Civilization in the Modern World

    In this compelling narrative, discover how Christianity—particularly through Puritanism—shaped the foundations of modern Western democracy, only to see its influence dramatically transformed by the forces of secularization. This accessible yet profound work The Rise and Fall of Christian Civilization in the Modern World traces two pivotal movements that defined our modern world: the rise of ... Read more

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  • The Dark Side of Church/State Separation

    The French Revolution, Nazi Germany, and International Communism

    The Dark Side of Church/State Separation analyzes the Enlightenment's attack upon the Judeo-Christian tradition and its impact upon the development of secular regimes in France, Germany, and Russia. Such regimes followed the anti-Semitic/anti-Christian agenda of the French Enlightenment in blaming the Judeo-Christian tradition for all the ills of European society and believing that human beings ... Read more

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  • Protestantism

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