03721nam 2200697Ia 450 991045172580332120210526204021.01-282-35940-197866123594080-520-93451-21-4356-0400-810.1525/9780520934511(CKB)1000000000479160(EBL)314366(OCoLC)476105880(SSID)ssj0000164161(PQKBManifestationID)11152090(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164161(PQKBWorkID)10120488(PQKB)10445489(MiAaPQ)EBC314366(DE-B1597)519576(OCoLC)780858867(DE-B1597)9780520934511(Au-PeEL)EBL314366(CaPaEBR)ebr10194308(CaONFJC)MIL235940(OCoLC)179687263(EXLCZ)99100000000047916020070320d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGodly republic[electronic resource] a centrist civic blueprint for America's faith-based future /John J. DiIulio, JrBerkeley, CA University of California Press20071 online resource (329 p.)The Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy ;5Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25800-2 0-520-25414-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. The Founders' Faithful Consensus --2. The Court's Neutrality Doctrine --3. The People's Charitable Choice --4. The President's Bipartisan Prayer --5. The Nation's Spiritual Capital --6. The Republic's Faith-Based Future --7. The Faith-Based Future's Blessings --Postscript --Appendix. The Williamsburg Charter --Notes --Index"Do you know if you are going to heaven?" Shortly after being appointed the first Director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives-the "faith czar"-John J. DiIulio Jr. was asked this question. Suddenly DiIulio, a Catholic Democrat who pioneered programs for inner-city children, was acutely aware that he was no longer a private citizen who might have humored the television evangelist standing before him. Now he was, as he recalls in his introduction-"responsible for assisting the president in faithfully upholding the Constitution . . . and faithfully acting in the public interest without regard to religious identities." Using his brief tenure in the George W. Bush administration as a springboard, this lively, informative, and entertaining book leaps into the ongoing debate over whether as a nation America is Christian or secular and to what degree church-state separation is compelled by the Constitution. Avoiding political pieties, DiIulio makes an impassioned case for a middle way. Written by a leading political scholar, Godly Republic offers a fast-paced, faith-inspired, and fact-based approach to enhancing America's civic future for one and all.Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy ;5.Christianity and politicsUnited StatesReligion and politicsUnited StatesUnited StatesChurch historyElectronic books.Christianity and politicsReligion and politics322/.10973DiIulio John J1041004MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451725803321Godly republic2464252UNINA