Biblical Citizenship in Modern America (TPF)
Author: Rick Green
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Published: 2021-12-16
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ISBN-13: 9781949775099
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Published: 2021-12-16
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ISBN-13: 9781949775099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth L. Jemison
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2020-10-07
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1469659700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemison shows how southerners, black and white, drew on biblical narratives as the basis for very different political imaginaries during and after Reconstruction. Focusing on everyday Protestants in the Mississippi River Valley, Jemison scours their biblical thinking and religious attitudes toward race. She argues that the evangelical groups that dominated this portion of the South shaped contesting visions of black and white rights. Black evangelicals saw the argument for their identities as Christians and as fully endowed citizens supported by their readings of both the Bible and U.S. law. The Bible, as they saw it, prohibited racial hierarchy, and Amendments 13, 14, and 15 advanced equal rights. Countering this, white evangelicals continued to emphasize a hierarchical paternalistic order that, shorn of earlier justifications for placing whites in charge of blacks, now fell into the defense of an increasingly violent white supremacist social order. They defined aspects of Christian identity so as to suppress black equality—even praying, as Jemison documents, for wisdom in how to deny voting rights to blacks. This religious culture has played into remarkably long-lasting patterns of inequality and segregation.
Author: Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM)
Publisher: Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM)
Published: 2020-02-06
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Good citizenship from a Christian Perspective
Author: Josh Hershberger
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Published: 2020-10-06
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ISBN-13: 9780578766362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lon Fendall
Publisher: Barclay Press
Published: 2003-10
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781594980008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How does being a follower of Christ affect your relationship with government? What do Solomon, Joseph, Nehemiah, Gideon, and other biblical characters teach us about citizenship? Lon Fendall profiles contemporary people who illustrate what it means to be an active Christian citizen and he shares biblical models.
Author: Keith Downey
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Published: 2023-09-26
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study guide provides first a scriptural understanding of citizenship, and second, practical insights to help Christians faithfully participate as citizens of the United States. The focus is on God's revealed will for ordering our earthly lives and administering human affairs. Glimpses in the Old Testament combined with the full revelation of the New Testament provide important principles and instruction regarding freedom, government, and citizenship. From that scriptural vantage point, the study evaluates the founding principles of our own form of government, diagnoses what is happening today in our society, and identifies the ways that churches, pastors, families, and individual Christians can and should faithfully participate. Table of Contents Lesson 1: What the Bible says about freedom, government, and citizenship - Part 1 Lesson 2: What the Bible says about freedom, government, and citizenship - Part 2 Lesson 3: Ordered Liberty: the founding principles of our form of government - is it biblical? Lesson 4: "A Republic, if you can keep it" - the role of the church, pastors, and families Lesson 5: The Christian U.S. citizen Lesson 6: Political, economic, and cultural angles of attack against God Lesson 7: The Christian and politics: Ways to engage Lesson 8: The Christian response to tyranny
Author: John Howard Yoder
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0836198646
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a world where many believers have lost a sense of their true home in God’s alternative society, Revolutionary Christian Citizenship addresses the difficulties of being both a follower of Jesus and a citizen of a political nation. Down-to-earth and original, theologian John Howard Yoder challenges traditional understanding of politics and reconsiders Christian citizenship in three parts: the witness of Jesus, the witness of the church, and witness in action. More accessible and practical than most of Yoder’s works, Revolutionary Christian Citizenship bridges the gap between faith and politics, equipping us to faithfully represent Christ in society and wage peace in a world of war. Book Two in the Yoder for Everyone series. Free downloadable study guide available here.