Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy Richard Settersten Jr By 1900 a newly established

By 1900 a newly established Old Soldiers' Home was in place at Sawtelle (between Santa Monica and Los Angeles)

Philadelphia gave focus to the American interest in understanding the world through both scientific and artistic forms of representation

The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community

Charlotte assumes responsibility for the infant and carries her to Utah

including the stunning Big Ben and the spectacular British Museum

Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy Richard Settersten Jr By 1900 a newly establishedInspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in favor of the political, and they attempted to recast and delimit traditional Christian teaching to serve and stabilize political life accordingly. This volume examines the arguments of those thinkers who worked to remake Christianity into a civil religion in the early modern and modern periods.