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There has been a considerable amount of literature in the last 70
years claiming that the American founders were steeped in modern
thought. This study runs counter to that tradition, arguing that
the founders of America were deeply indebted to the classical
Christian natural-law tradition for their fundamental theological,
moral, and political outlook. Evidence for this thesis is found in
case studies of such leading American founders as Thomas Jefferson
and James Wilson, the pamphlet debates, the founders' invocation of
providence during the revolution, and their understanding of
popular sovereignty. The authors go on to reflect on how the
founders' political thought contained within it the resources that
undermined, in principle, the institution of slavery, and explores
the relevance of the founders' political theology for contemporary
politics. This timely, important book makes a significant
contribution to the scholarly debate over whether the American
founding is compatible with traditional Christianity.
The liberal arts university has been in decline since well before
the virtualization of campus life, increasingly inviting public
skepticism about its viability as an institution of personal,
civic, and professional growth. The current generation of
technologies that mediate our formal and informal academic
interchanges are crystalizing the echo-chamber allegiances that
have developed on our politically charged campuses, frustrating the
university’s capacity to foster thoughtful citizenship among
tomorrow’s leaders. Moreover, as applications such as Teams and
Zoom become ensconced within higher learning institutions,
universities will inadvertently replicate the existing
socioeconomic inequalities that are poisoning America’s civic
culture. Â With Liberal Education and Citizenship in a Free
Society, a collection of 18 original essays, editors Dyer and
Vassiliou hope to deepen our understanding of underappreciated
issues in the history of political thought. For the volume, the
editors have recruited a remarkable and diverse group of scholars
who draw from both their research expertise and personal experience
as educators to assess the value of a liberal arts education in the
face of the market, technological, cultural, and political forces
shaping higher learning today. The contributing authors’
competing perspectives provide innovative insights into how liberal
arts universities might adapt to a post-COVID-19 academic
environment by recalibrating their long-standing pedagogic aims of
helping students formulate self-understanding and the meaning of
thoughtful citizenship.
There has been a considerable amount of literature in the last 70
years claiming that the American founders were steeped in modern
thought. This study runs counter to that tradition, arguing that
the founders of America were deeply indebted to the classical
Christian natural-law tradition for their fundamental theological,
moral, and political outlook. Evidence for this thesis is found in
case studies of such leading American founders as Thomas Jefferson
and James Wilson, the pamphlet debates, the founders' invocation of
providence during the revolution, and their understanding of
popular sovereignty. The authors go on to reflect on how the
founders' political thought contained within it the resources that
undermined, in principle, the institution of slavery, and explores
the relevance of the founders' political theology for contemporary
politics. This timely, important book makes a significant
contribution to the scholarly debate over whether the American
founding is compatible with traditional Christianity.
Conventional wisdom holds that C. S. Lewis was uninterested in
politics and public affairs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. As
Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson show in this groundbreaking
work, Lewis was deeply interested in the fundamental truths and
falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest
themselves in the contested and turbulent public square. Ranging
from the depths of Lewis' philosophical treatments of epistemology
and moral pedagogy to practical considerations of morals
legislation and responsible citizenship, this book explores the
contours of Lewis' multi-faceted Christian engagement with
political philosophy generally and the natural-law tradition in
particular. Drawing from the full range of Lewis' corpus and
situating his thought in relationship to both ancient and modern
seminal thinkers, C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law
offers an unprecedented look at politics and political thought from
the perspective of one of the twentieth century's most influential
writers.
Conventional wisdom holds that C. S. Lewis was uninterested in
politics and public affairs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. As
Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson show in this groundbreaking
work, Lewis was deeply interested in the fundamental truths and
falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest
themselves in the contested and turbulent public square. Ranging
from the depths of Lewis' philosophical treatments of epistemology
and moral pedagogy to practical considerations of morals
legislation and responsible citizenship, this book explores the
contours of Lewis' multi-faceted Christian engagement with
political philosophy generally and the natural-law tradition in
particular. Drawing from the full range of Lewis' corpus and
situating his thought in relationship to both ancient and modern
seminal thinkers, C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law
offers an unprecedented look at politics and political thought from
the perspective of one of the twentieth century's most influential
writers.
The Declaration of Independence has been the subject of competing
interpretations since its adoption by the Continental Congress on
the Fourth of July 1776, and for nearly two and a half centuries
the political ideas expressed in its preamble have inspired reform
movements both at home and abroad. From the early debates on the
nature of the American Republic to abolitionism, progressivism, the
civil rights movement, and contemporary debates about American
economic and foreign policy, the Declaration is, as it has been, a
vibrant and dynamic, though perennially disputed, source of
American ideals. The present volume brings together a variety of
speeches and writings related to the contested meaning and legacy
of the Declaration of Independence, and the various documents
assembled together demonstrate how competing interpretations of the
Declaration have shaped, and been shaped by, political conflict in
America. The Declaration is perhaps our "national soul," as Charles
Sumner wrote in 1860, but Americans have rarely spoken of it with
one voice. American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration
of Independence paints, with broad strokes, a picture of the
debates that have shaped a nation.
In Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition, Justin
Buckley Dyer provides a succinct account of the development of
American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the
Civil War. Within the context of recent revisionist scholarship,
Dyer argues that the theoretical foundations of American
constitutionalism - which he identifies with principles of natural
law - were antagonistic to slavery. Still, the continued existence
of slavery in the nineteenth century created a tension between
practice and principle. In a series of case studies, Dyer
reconstructs the constitutional arguments of prominent antislavery
thinkers such as John Quincy Adams, John McLean, Abraham Lincoln
and Frederick Douglass, who collectively sought to overcome the
legacy of slavery by emphasizing the natural law foundations of
American constitutionalism. What emerges is a convoluted
understanding of American constitutional development that
challenges traditional narratives of linear progress while
highlighting the centrality of natural law to America's greatest
constitutional crisis.
The Declaration of Independence has been the subject of competing
interpretations since its adoption by the Continental Congress on
the Fourth of July 1776, and for nearly two and a half centuries
the political ideas expressed in its preamble have inspired reform
movements both at home and abroad. From the early debates on the
nature of the American Republic to abolitionism, progressivism, the
civil rights movement, and contemporary debates about American
economic and foreign policy, the Declaration is, as it has been, a
vibrant and dynamic, though perennially disputed, source of
American ideals. The present volume brings together a variety of
speeches and writings related to the contested meaning and legacy
of the Declaration of Independence, and the various documents
assembled together demonstrate how competing interpretations of the
Declaration have shaped, and been shaped by, political conflict in
America. The Declaration is perhaps our "national soul," as Charles
Sumner wrote in 1860, but Americans have rarely spoken of it with
one voice. American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration
of Independence paints, with broad strokes, a picture of the
debates that have shaped a nation
In Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition, Justin
Buckley Dyer provides a succinct account of the development of
American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the
Civil War. Within the context of recent revisionist scholarship,
Dyer argues that the theoretical foundations of American
constitutionalism - which he identifies with principles of natural
law - were antagonistic to slavery. Still, the continued existence
of slavery in the nineteenth century created a tension between
practice and principle. In a series of case studies, Dyer
reconstructs the constitutional arguments of prominent antislavery
thinkers such as John Quincy Adams, John McLean, Abraham Lincoln
and Frederick Douglass, who collectively sought to overcome the
legacy of slavery by emphasizing the natural law foundations of
American constitutionalism. What emerges is a convoluted
understanding of American constitutional development that
challenges traditional narratives of linear progress while
highlighting the centrality of natural law to America's greatest
constitutional crisis.
For the past forty years, prominent pro-life activists, judges and
politicians have invoked the history and legacy of American slavery
to elucidate aspects of contemporary abortion politics. As is often
the case, many of these popular analogies have been imprecise,
underdeveloped and historically simplistic. In Slavery, Abortion,
and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning, Justin Buckley Dyer
provides the first book-length scholarly treatment of the parallels
between slavery and abortion in American constitutional
development. In this fascinating and wide-ranging study, Dyer
demonstrates that slavery and abortion really are historically,
philosophically and legally intertwined in America. The nexus,
however, is subtler and more nuanced than is often suggested, and
the parallels involve deep principles of constitutionalism.
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