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Overview
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781586179489 |
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Publisher: | Ignatius Press |
Publication date: | 04/15/2020 |
Edition description: | None |
Pages: | 384 |
Sales rank: | 61,053 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Preface xv
Introduction: Do We Hold These Truths? 1
1 The Legacies of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome 15
2 The Medieval Roots of Constitutionalism 66
3 The Loss of Reason and Nature 108
4 Enter: Martin Luther-Exit: Christendom 127
5 Richard Hooker: Restoring Natural Law 158
6 Thomas Hobbes and the Rise of Secular Absolutism 172
7 The Divine Right of Kings and Its Enemies 196
8 John Locke: Problem or Solution? 225
9 A Restorative Founding on Reason 248
10 The Antipodes: The American Revolution versus the French Revolution 274
11 Critiquing the Critics: Why They Go Wrong about What Was Right 289
Epilogue: If the Founding Was Good, Why Did Things Go Bad? 321
Selected Bibliography 333
Index 347