When the State Replaces God
"Abolish God, and the Government becomes God..." Chesterton
An interview with Benjamin Wiker, the author of
Worshipping
the State: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion
Benjamin Wiker is a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, a contributor to Catholic World Report, and the author of several books, including the recently published Worshipping the State: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion(Regnery, 2013). He spoke with CWR about his book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: The War on Christianity
- Chapter 1: Reading the Signs of Our Times
Part II: Christianity Destroys the Pagan Idol of the State
- Chapter 2: Back to the Beginning: the Church versus Pagan Imperial Rome
- Chapter 3: How the Bible Kept the Church from Becoming a Department of the State
- Chapter 4: From the Conversion of Constantine to the Fall of Rome
- Chapter 5: The Middle Ages: Defining the Church-State Distinction
Part III: The Rise of Liberalism and the Re-Paganization of the State
- Chapter 6: Machiavelli Invents the Secular State and Its Church
- Chapter 7: From Henry VIII to Thomas Hobbes: the State Church, Leviathan, and the Sovereign Individual
- Chapter 8: Spinoza: the Liberal Elite and the Established Secular Church
- Chapter 9: Rousseau’s Radical Liberalism: Establishing Civil Religion
Part IV: The New Big Picture
- Chapter 10: Liberalism Triumphs in the Modern World
- Chapter 11: Sorting Out the Confusions
- Chapter 12: John Locke and the Two Faces of Liberalism
Part V: Liberalism Comes to America
- Chapter 13: The First Wave: Locke, Deism, and the Founders
- Chapter 14: The Second Wave: Radicals at the Universities
- Chapter 15: Secularization, American Style
Part VI: Disestablishment
- Chapter 16: Disestablishing Secular Liberalism
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