Samurai William The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan

Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Editor)

A Co-Operative Security Order in and for Europe

This book examines aspects of the search for a new European security regime--the conceptual issues i

David T. Buckley (Author)

Blessing America First: Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration

How did the Trump administration change the place of religion in U.S. foreign policy? How did the

Jonathan Rauch (Author)

Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy

2,Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy "Concise and elegant. . . . Rauch applies careful research and incisive prose to examine, diagnose, and prescribe a cure for the maladies afflicting contemporary religious-political dynamics."--Michael M. Rosen, Commentary What happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our constitutional order depends? In this provocative book, the award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch--a lifelong atheist--reckons candidly with both the shortcomings of secularism and the corrosion of Christianity. Thin Christianity, as Rauch calls the mainline church, has been unable to inspire and retain believers. Worse, a Church of Fear has distorted white evangelicalism in ways that violate the tenets of both Jesus and James Madison. What to do? For answers, Rauch looks to a new generation of religious thinkers, as well as to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has placed the Constitution at the heart of its spiritual teachings. In this timely critique Rauch addresses secular Americans who think Christianity can be abandoned, and Christian ...