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Discipliana Vol-65-Nos-1-4-2005, Newell Williams

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Discipliana Vol-65-Nos-1-4-2005

Edward Robinson, "THE TWO OLD HEROES": SAMUEL W. WOMACK, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL AND THE ORIGINS OF BLACK CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN THE UNITED STATES

Mark Martin, THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST EVANGELIZE GERMANY: THE FIRST YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR TWO

Don Haymes, FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE STONE· CAMPBELL MOVEMENT: MARSHALL KEEBLE

G. Richard Phillips, BARTON WARREN STONE: HIS DISTINCTIVE CONTRIBUTION

John Grigg, A RECONSIDERATION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY POPULAR PROTESTANTISM: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS IN THE OLATHE (KANSAS) CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Rick Nutt, Controversy in Christ: The Background and Context of Western Frontier Presbyterian Revivalism and the Movements which Grew …

Menorah Review (No. 62, Winter/Spring, 2005)

Menorah Review

Tales to Engage -- The Study of The Holocaust And Its Discontents -- Jews Courageous -- Thinking Heart of A Concentration Camp: The Spiritual Journey of A Young Woman in Holland Under Nazi Occupation -- Great Russian-Jewish Historians -- Children's Merits -- Noteworthy Books

Menorah Review (No. 63, Summer/Fall, 2005)

Menorah Review

Affirming Life -- Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and Christianity -- Beginnings Departures Endings -- Christians and Israel -- Judaism and Superstitions -- Noteworthy Books

The Scottish And English Religious Roots Of The American Right To Arms: Buchanan, Rutherford, Locke, Sidney, And The Duty To Overthrow Tyranny, David B. Kopel

David B Kopel

Many twenty-first century Americans believe that they have a God-given right to possess arms as a last resort against tyranny. One of the most important sources of that belief is the struggle for freedom of conscience in the United Kingdom during the reigns of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts. A moral right and duty to use force against tyranny was explicated by the Scottish Presbyterians George Buchanan and Samuel Rutherford. The free-thinking English Christians John Locke and Algernon Sidney broadened and deepened the ideas of Buchanan and Rutherford. The result was a sophisticated defense of religious freedom, which was to …

The Religious Roots Of The American Revolution And The Right To Keep And Bear Arms, David B. Kopel

David B Kopel

This article examines the religious background of the American Revolution. The article details how the particular religious beliefs of the American colonists developed so that the American people eventually came to believe that overthrowing King George and Parliament was a sacred obligation. The religious attitudes which impelled the Americans to armed revolution are an essential component of the American ideology of the right to keep and bear arms.