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Summer Reading For Hearty Souls, Steven Samson Aug 1991

Summer Reading For Hearty Souls, Steven Samson

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Each of these books stands as a reproach to our secularized educational system which fails to challenge either our minds or our hearts. Our growing ignorance of history and literature is severing the cultural lifeline of our civilization and orphaning our young people. As Zacharias (A Shattered Visage), Kuehnelt-Leddihn (Leftism Revisited), and Nickel (Mathematics: Is God Silent?) have shown, it is necessary to strip away the pretensions of our flight from God and begin a major facelift.

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Hungary: Soviet Forces Out, New Policies In, Stephen R. Bowers Jul 1991

Hungary: Soviet Forces Out, New Policies In, Stephen R. Bowers

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Christianity In Nineteenth Century American Law, Steven Alan Samson Mar 1991

Christianity In Nineteenth Century American Law, Steven Alan Samson

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The religious underpinnings of American political and legal institutions have been duly noted by legal scholars, historians, judges, politicians, and clergymen alike. Church polities provided models not only for colonial civil governments but also for the present constitutional system.

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Theological Sources Of American Constitutionalism, Steven Alan Samson Feb 1991

Theological Sources Of American Constitutionalism, Steven Alan Samson

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The conservative nature and limited objectives of the American War for Independence are difficult to appreciate apart from an understanding of the religious sentiments—the essentially biblical world-view—of the early colonists. To make such a statement is to invite debate in a continuing controversy. But apart from an acquaintance with some of the religious sources of our constitutional tradition, our understanding of the War for Independence and the Constitution of 1787 will be incomplete.

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Honecker’S Legacy, Stephen R. Bowers Jan 1991