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Rediscovering: a history of modern democracy and the Christian ethic

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Page Smith, the distinguished American historian, in Rediscovering Christianity confronts the United States of the 1990s as a society fractured by the dissolution of the family, adrift in a sea of moral and intellectual disarray, and crippled by the alienation of its young. Tracing Christian thought through Western history, Smith looks to see if it might have any solutions to offer to our present malaise. Pulling the idea of two distinct and separate cities of God and man from Augustine's The City of God, Smith molds the concept around history to discuss exactly where and when man began to stray from the basic Christian values of faith, unity, and spirituality. Tracing the two cities from the Roman Empire to the present day, we are able to see ourselves far off the path, lost in a quagmire of consumerism, decadence, and overindulgence.

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277.3 SMI r

Z. HANDIMAN

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277.3 SMI r

Publisher

New York : St. Martin's Press., 1994

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212p.; 19 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-312-10531-2

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277.3

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CHRISTIANITY - UNITED STATES, HISTORY

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