America's Transcendent Tether.
The article examines whether America was ever a Christian nation, concluding that while it was never de jure Christian, it long operated under a shared civil religion tethered to a transcendent Creator until the Supreme Court severed that link mid-century. Topics include the distinction between de f...
| Published in: | Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 20 - 27 |
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Fellowship of St. James
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