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      <title>Liberation Theology by Phillip Berryman</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831606&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307831606&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831606&quot;&gt;Liberation Theology&lt;/a&gt; The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=2204&quot;&gt;Phillip Berryman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 240 pages | Pantheon | Religion - Christianity - Theology - Liberation Theology; Religion - Church &amp; State; Political Science - World - Caribbean &amp; Latin American | &lt;b&gt;$24.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-83160-6 (0-307-83160-4)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Liberation theology has become an essential component of almost every major debate over Latin America today.&amp;nbsp; It has changed the face of political life in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Haiti; contributed to the rise of &amp;ldquo;people power&amp;rdquo; in the Philippines; even played a role in the growing discontent of debt-plagued Brazil.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now, using the plainspoken approach that made his &lt;i&gt;Inside Central America&lt;/i&gt; the indispensable book on current affairs in the region, Phillip Berryman traces the origins, spread, and impact of liberation theology.&amp;nbsp; He shows how its proponents have radically reinterpreted basic Biblical themes (such as the Creation and the Exodus) from the perspective of the poor and isenfranchised.&amp;nbsp; By not asking &amp;ldquo;What must I believe?&amp;rdquo; but rather &amp;ldquo;What is to be done?&amp;rdquo; they make a direct connection between religious beliefs and political life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-02-20T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>OUR UNFINISHED BUSINESS by Phillip Berryman</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831644&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307831644&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307831644&quot;&gt;OUR UNFINISHED BUSINESS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=2204&quot;&gt;Phillip Berryman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 208 pages | Pantheon | Religion - Church &amp; State; Religion - Ethics; Religion - Christian Life - Social Issues | &lt;b&gt;$15.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-83164-4 (0-307-83164-7)&lt;p&gt;What human ends are served by our economic policies?&amp;nbsp; To whom is what &amp;ldquo;owed&amp;rdquo; in our country today?&amp;nbsp; Is there an acceptable argument for just wars &amp;ndash; or for the proliferation of nuclear weapons?&amp;nbsp; In the final years of the Reagan era, The U.S. Catholic bishops emerged as articulate sources of dissenting wisdom, publicly testing our foreign and domestic policies against the principles of morality and humanity.&amp;nbsp; With the same succinct style of &lt;i&gt;Liberation Theology&lt;/i&gt;, Phillip Berryman analyzes two recent and widely circulated texts: the 1982 &lt;i&gt;Challenge of Peace&lt;/i&gt; (on nuclear arms) and the 1986 &lt;i&gt;Economic Justice For All&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Drawing on debate in and beyond church circles over these letters, Berryman argues that as we search for acceptable answers to urgent political questions we must use ethical and moral traditions if we are to confront them squarely.&amp;nbsp; Only then can we promote peace and prosperity for all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Trade Paperback edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-02-20T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Positive Thinkers by Donald Meyer</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307828231&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307828231&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307828231&quot;&gt;The Positive Thinkers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=20460&quot;&gt;Donald Meyer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 400 pages | Pantheon | Religion - Psychology of Religion; Religion - Church &amp; State; Religion - Christian Church - History | &lt;b&gt;$19.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-82823-1 (0-307-82823-9)&lt;p&gt;The subject of Professor Meyer's superb study concerns the dissolution of the Protestant ethic, its relationship to a general failure of nerve within the American community, and the consequent rise of a pseudo-theology in the guise of a pseudo-psychology, as reflected through the work of certain &quot;mind-cure&quot; practitioners, from Mary Baker Eddy to Norman Vincent Peale. It is a subject largely ignored by intellectuals, and Professor Meyer, in taking it out of the domain of the &lt;i&gt;Reader's Digest&lt;/i&gt;or similar habitations, has produced a real service, not only to sociology and political science, disciplines in which he is very well versed, but also to mass-culture and the vague but insidious ethos behind it. In describing what the sub-title states as &quot;the American Quest for Health, Wealth, and Personal Power,&quot; Professor Meyer works from an historical perspective, does not beat any drums nor ride any hobby horse; scholarly care and an in-depth generosity illuminate a number of intricate concepts, whether they be &quot;individualism,&quot;&lt;i&gt; laissez-faire&lt;/i&gt; industry or the peculiar role and influence of women within society. His work is schematized yet fluid, showing how a process of ego-disintegration has paradoxically resulted out of the improperly understood religious orientation of the past and the anxiety-ridden religious revival of the present. Today God &quot;means&quot; Adjustment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;mdash;Virgina Kirkus, &lt;i&gt;Kirkus Reviews&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-02-06T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>In Freedom We Trust by Edward M. Buckner</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781616146443&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781616146443&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781616146443&quot;&gt;In Freedom We Trust&lt;/a&gt; An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=179897&quot;&gt;Edward M. Buckner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 281 pages | Prometheus Books | Religion - Atheism; Political Science - Political Freedom &amp; Security; Religion - Church &amp; State | &lt;b&gt;$18.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-61614-644-3 (1-61614-644-3)&lt;p&gt;Opponents attack the president of the United States for not being a real Christian. Bitter arguments erupt over whether the United States is or should be a Christian nation. Sound familiar? These contentious issues are not just recent developments but were also the topics of fierce debate in the late eighteenth century. Like President Obama today, President Thomas Jefferson had to contend with accusations that his religious convictions were questionable. Against complaints that the writers of the Constitution did not invoke God, John Adams replied, &quot;It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods.&quot; This book covers these and other related issues from the two-centuries-long debate over religion and secularism in America. Taking an unabashedly atheistic point of view, the father-and-son authors argue that everyone-from evangelical Christian to ardent atheist-needs a secular America and separation of church and state. They examine the decidedly unchristian roots of the Fourth of July, the important difference between &quot;tolerance&quot; and &quot;toleration,&quot; the misleading confusions related to the difference between &quot;public&quot; and &quot;governmental,&quot; the value of secular schooling, the erroneous contention that atheism is equivalent to immorality and therefore dangerous, and a host of other contemporary and historical topics. With a list of key dates related to the history of secular America, notes, bibliography, and glossary, In Freedom We Trust offers important facts and arguments for secular humanists and anyone with an interest in freedom of conscience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
      <id>http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781616146443</id>
      <updated>2012-12-18T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>In Freedom We Trust by Edward M. Buckner</title>
      <author>
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      <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781616146450" type="text/html" />
      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781616146450&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781616146450&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781616146450&quot;&gt;In Freedom We Trust&lt;/a&gt; An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=179897&quot;&gt;Edward M. Buckner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Prometheus Books | Religion - Atheism; Political Science - Political Freedom &amp; Security; Religion - Church &amp; State | &lt;b&gt;$11.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-61614-645-0 (1-61614-645-1)&lt;p&gt;Opponents attack the president of the United States for not being a real Christian. Bitter arguments erupt over whether the United States is or should be a Christian nation. Sound familiar? These contentious issues are not just recent developments but were also the topics of fierce debate in the late eighteenth century. Like President Obama today, President Thomas Jefferson had to contend with accusations that his religious convictions were questionable. Against complaints that the writers of the Constitution did not invoke God, John Adams replied, &quot;It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods.&quot; This book covers these and other related issues from the two-centuries-long debate over religion and secularism in America. Taking an unabashedly atheistic point of view, the father-and-son authors argue that everyone-from evangelical Christian to ardent atheist-needs a secular America and separation of church and state. They examine the decidedly unchristian roots of the Fourth of July, the important difference between &quot;tolerance&quot; and &quot;toleration,&quot; the misleading confusions related to the difference between &quot;public&quot; and &quot;governmental,&quot; the value of secular schooling, the erroneous contention that atheism is equivalent to immorality and therefore dangerous, and a host of other contemporary and historical topics. With a list of key dates related to the history of secular America, notes, bibliography, and glossary, In Freedom We Trust offers important facts and arguments for secular humanists and anyone with an interest in freedom of conscience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-12-11T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith by Andrew Preston</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400078585&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781400078585&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400078585&quot;&gt;Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith&lt;/a&gt; Religion in American War and Diplomacy&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=59248&quot;&gt;Andrew Preston&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 832 pages | Anchor | History - United States; Political Science - International Relations; Religion - Church &amp; State | &lt;b&gt;$18.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-4000-7858-5 (1-4000-7858-X)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction&lt;br&gt;Finalist for&amp;nbsp;the Cundhill Prize in History&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women&amp;mdash;from presidents to preachers&amp;mdash;who have plotted the country&amp;rsquo;s course in the world.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans&amp;rsquo; new home would be &amp;ldquo;a city upon a hill,&amp;rdquo; Americans&amp;rsquo; role in the world has been shaped by their belief that God has something special in mind for them. But this is a story that historians have mostly ignored. Now, in the first authoritative work on the subject, Andrew Preston explores the major strains of religious fervor&amp;mdash;liberal and conservative, pacifist and militant, internationalist and isolationist&amp;mdash;that framed American thinking on international issues from the earliest colonial wars to the twenty-first century. He arrives at some startling conclusions, among them: Abraham Lincoln&amp;rsquo;s use of religion in the Civil War became the model for subsequent wars of humanitarian intervention; nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries made up the first NGO to advance a global human rights agenda; religious liberty was the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt&amp;rsquo;s strategy to bring the United States into World War II.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;From George Washington to George W. Bush, from the Puritans to the present, from the colonial wars to the Cold War, religion has been one of America&amp;rsquo;s most powerful sources of ideas about the wider world. When, just days after 9/11, George W. Bush described America as &amp;ldquo;a prayerful nation, a nation that prays to an almighty God for protection and for peace,&amp;rdquo; or when Barack Obama spoke of balancing the &amp;ldquo;just war and the imperatives of a just peace&amp;rdquo; in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, they were echoing four hundred years of religious rhetoric. Preston traces this echo back to its source.&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith&lt;/i&gt; is an unprecedented achievement: no one has yet attempted such a bold synthesis of American history. It is also a remarkable work of balance and fair-mindedness about one of the most fraught subjects in America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-11-13T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Proclaim Liberty by Carl Anderson</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385348799&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385348799&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385348799&quot;&gt;Proclaim Liberty&lt;/a&gt; Notes on the Next Great Awakening in America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=88327&quot;&gt;Carl Anderson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 35 pages | Image | Religion - Church &amp; State; Religion - Christian Life; Religion - Catholicism | &lt;b&gt;$2.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-385-34879-9 (0-385-34879-7)&lt;p&gt;America's history has been shaped by the sacrifice and witness of millions who have exercised in extraordinary ways our nation's guarantee of religious freedom. Historians have referred to these periods as &quot;Great Awakenings.&quot; In this ebook, comprised of three talks Carl Anderson gave between April and August 2012, the author argues that all people of faith ought to approach politics in an effort to transform the divisiveness and hostility in today's political arena into a society in which every person is respected and valued&amp;mdash;a society&amp;nbsp;that Pope John Paul II has called a &quot;Civilization of Love.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-10-09T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>True Freedom by Timothy M. Dolan</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385344937&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385344937&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385344937&quot;&gt;True Freedom&lt;/a&gt; On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Liberty&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=166535&quot;&gt;Timothy M. Dolan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 32 pages | Image | Religion - Christian Life; Religion - Catholicism; Religion - Church &amp; State | &lt;b&gt;$0.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-385-34493-7 (0-385-34493-7)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;True&amp;nbsp;Freedom&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Liberty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Are American liberties on the endangered species list? In this eBook original, the Archbishop of New York and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issues a plea for all citizens to reject the cynicism of the day and foster a culture in which religious freedom and all human life are infinitely valued.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Religion and the dignity of human life are under attack by a variety of threats in the modern world including abortion, infanticide, eugenics, misuse of artificial reproductive technologies, an unjust distribution of economic resources, war, the arms trade, drugs, and human trafficking. What can be done to stop this? Cardinal Timothy Dolan explains the need for all Americans to embrace a new culture rooted in what Blessed John Paul II called the Gospel of Life where the sacredness of all human life, and the freedoms that are their birthright, are upheld, respected and protected by law.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-06-19T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>A Heart on Fire by Charles J. Chaput</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437640&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780770437640&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770437640&quot;&gt;A Heart on Fire&lt;/a&gt; Catholic Witness and the Next America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=90726&quot;&gt;Charles J. Chaput&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 32 pages | Image | Religion - Christian Life; Religion - Catholicism; Religion - Church &amp; State | &lt;b&gt;$0.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-7704-3764-0 (0-7704-3764-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;A genuinely Catholic life should feed the soul as well as the mind; should offer a vision of men and women made whole by the love of God, the knowledge of creation, and the reality of things unseen; should enable us to see the beauty of the world in the light of eternity; and should help us recapture the nobility of the human story and the dignity of the human person. This is the kind of witness that sets fire to the human heart.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;mdash;Archbishop Charles J. Chaput&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;In this eBook original, Charles J. Chaput, the Archbishop of Philadelphia, offers a powerful manifesto on the need for Americans to protect religious freedom.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;As he notes, principles that Americans find self-evident&amp;mdash;the dignity of the human person, the sanctity of conscience, the separation of political and sacred authority, the distinction between secular and religious law, the idea of a civil society pre-existing and distinct from the state&amp;mdash;are not widely shared elsewhere in the world, and in recent years seem to be in jeopardy on our own shores.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Archbishop Chaput offers a call to action for leadership both here and abroad to challenge this damaging trend. By thoughtfully interpreting and applying Catholic values to this confusing moment in history, he provides hope for an American audience hungry for courage and counsel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-03-27T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith by Andrew Preston</title>
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      <updated>2012-02-28T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith by Andrew Preston</title>
      <author>
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      </author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400043231&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781400043231&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400043231&quot;&gt;Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith&lt;/a&gt; Religion in American War and Diplomacy&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=59248&quot;&gt;Andrew Preston&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 832 pages | Knopf | History - United States; Political Science - International Relations; Religion - Church &amp; State | &lt;b&gt;$37.50&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-4000-4323-1 (1-4000-4323-9)&lt;p&gt;A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women&amp;mdash;from presidents to preachers&amp;mdash;who have plotted the country&amp;rsquo;s course in the world.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans&amp;rsquo; new home would be &amp;ldquo;a city upon a hill,&amp;rdquo; Americans&amp;rsquo; role in the world has been shaped by their belief that God has something special in mind for them. But this is a story that historians have mostly ignored. Now, in the first authoritative work on the subject, Andrew Preston explores the major strains of religious fervor&amp;mdash;liberal and conservative, pacifist and militant, internationalist and isolationist&amp;mdash;that framed American thinking on international issues from the earliest colonial wars to the twenty-first century. He arrives at some startling conclusions, among them: Abraham Lincoln&amp;rsquo;s use of religion in the Civil War became the model for subsequent wars of humanitarian intervention; nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries made up the first NGO to advance a global human rights agenda; religious liberty was the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt&amp;rsquo;s strategy to bring the United States into World War II.&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; From George Washington to George W. Bush, from the Puritans to the present, from the colonial wars to the Cold War, religion has been one of America&amp;rsquo;s most powerful sources of ideas about the wider world. When, just days after 9/11, George W. Bush described America as &amp;ldquo;a prayerful nation, a nation that prays to an almighty God for protection and for peace,&amp;rdquo; or when Barack Obama spoke of balancing the &amp;ldquo;just war and the imperatives of a just peace&amp;rdquo; in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, they were echoing four hundred years of religious rhetoric. Preston traces this echo back to its source.&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith&lt;/i&gt; is an unprecedented achievement: no one has yet attempted such a bold synthesis of American history. It is also a remarkable work of balance and fair-mindedness about one of the most fraught subjects in America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <author>
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      <title>The Separation of Church and State by Forrest Church</title>
      <author>
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      <title>True to Life by Janet Folger</title>
      <author>
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      <title>The Separation of Church and State by Forrest Church</title>
      <author>
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      <title>Against Ratzinger by Anthony Shugaar</title>
      <author>
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