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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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