America on trial : a defense of the founding

America on trial : a defense of the founding

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, 2020.

xvi, 366 p. ; 24 cm.

973.31 R362 2020

(OCoLC)1129100711

Contents: Introduction: Do we hold these truths? -- The legacies of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome -- The medieval roots of constitutionalism -- The loss of reason and nature -- Enter: Martin Luther--Exit: Christendom -- Richard Hooker: restoring natural law -- Thomas Hobbes and the rise of secular absolutism -- The divine right of kings and its enemies -- John Locke: problem or solution? -- A restorative founding on reason -- The Antipodes: the American Revolution versus the French Revolution -- Critiquing the critics: why they go wrong about what was right -- Epilogue: If the founding was good, why did things go bad?
Reilly traces the lineage of the ideas that made the United States, and its ordered liberty, possible. These concepts were extraordinary when they first burst upon the ancient world: the Judaic oneness of God, who creates ex nihilo and imprints his image on man; the Greek rational order of the world based upon the Reason behind it; and the Christian arrival of that Reason (Logos) incarnate in Christ. These may seem a long way from the American founding, but Reilly argues that they are, in fact, its bedrock--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-346) and index.
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