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500 Years of Protest and Liberty

Name: 500 Years of Protest and Liberty
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From Martin Luther to modern civil rights

By Nicholas P. Miller

Paperback, 192 pages

Pacific Press, 2017

ISBN: 9780816363025

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Overview

Were Martin Luther s ideas the beginning of a larger movement for international human rights in the 20th century?

When Martin Luther King, Jr., marched on Selma, wrote a defense of civil disobedience from a Jail in Birmingham, and proclaimed his dream of racial equality on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, was he acting in the tradition of his namesake, the 16th century Protestant reformer Martin Luther?

Were their connections to the unfolding stream of Protestant history merely historical accidents?

Were they both just responding to the universal human resolve to stand for conviction and truth?

To ask the question more broadly, did the Protestant Reformation play any positive role in the development of human rights in the west?

The 500th anniversary of the publication of Martin Luther s 95 Theses in 1517 is a perfect time to reflect on these questions. 500 Years of Protest and Liberty traces a direct line from Martin Luther s powerful ideas about the equality of persons before God to more current debates about equal opportunity and the fundamental rights of humanity. Along the way, it asks tough questions about where the protestant church is headed today. Most important, 500 Years of Protest and Liberty is a reminder that Martin Luther s powerful ideas, which shaped our thinking as Christians today, call us back to the fundamental principles of our Christianity.

Contents

Overview: From Martin Luther to Martin Luther King Jr.—Five Centuries of Protestant Pursuit of Liberty

Part I: European Backgrounds of Protestant Liberty, Rights, and Democracy

Chapter 1: The Scripturally Informed Conscience: Luther and Religious Liberty, Part 1
Chapter 2: The Revolutionary: Luther and Religious Liberty, Part 2
Chapter 3: The Backgrounds of America’s Founding Protestant Philosophy
Chapter 4: Luther, Locke, and Competing Notions of Human Dignity
Chapter 5: Protestant Dignity and the Rise of Worldwide Democracy and Human Rights

Part II: Early American Experiences of Protestant Liberty

Chapter 6: A Populist Religious Movement—How Did Church and State Separate in America?
Chapter 7: What Kind of Liberty? The Civil War American Freedoms
Chapter 8: After the Civil War: Bringing Freedom to the States
Chapter 9: WallBuilders v. MythBuilders—David Barton and the Revising of America’s Past

Part III: Protesting Protestantism: Twentieth-Century Challenges to Religious Freedom

Chapter 10: Religious Freedom and Modern American Politics
Chapter 11: The Religious Right’s Assault on the Rights of Religion
Chapter 12: Reconstruction—Rebuilding Religious Freedom
Chapter 13: Rethinking Prisoner RFRA Exemptions
Chapter 14: A Secular Threat to Religious Freedom
Chapter 15: Cults in the Crossfire
Chapter 16: Cults and Psycho Groups
Chapter 17: Freedom Under Fire: The First Amendment in Times of Crisis

Part IV: Other Modern Legal Issues in Church and State

Chapter 18: Homeschooling and the Law
Chapter 19: The Price of Faith
Chapter 20: Comments on Tuition Vouchers: Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
Chapter 21: Tax-Tutored Theologians
Chapter 22: Town of Greece v. Galloway—the “Christianization” of Local Government?
Chapter 23: Is Religion a Hobby?
Chapter 24: Religion Is Not a Hobby!
Chapter 25: Religious Freedom: The New Bigotry?
Chapter 26: Gay Marriage and the Supreme Court: What’s at Stake for Religious Freedom?

Conclusion: From Martin Luther to Donald Trump? Protestantism, Twenty-First-Century Populism, and the Future of Religious Liberty

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