Steven D Smith

Pagans and Christians in the City

Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot's World War II-era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and "modern paganism," Smith argues in this book that today's culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith's Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today's most controversial issues.

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Produktdetails

• Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (Euslr)
• Verlag: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780802878809
• ISBN-10: 0802878806
• Artikelnr.: 60001826

Autorenporträt

Steven D. Smith is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where he also codirects the Institute for Law and Philosophy and the Institute for Law and Religion. He won the 2022 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative Scholarship Award for his accomplishments in the field of law and religion. His publications include The Godless Constitution and the Providential Republic, Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, and The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom.