Most Recent Articles from Journal of Church and State

• The European background of American freedom 

  To reach the real sources of the American concept of freedom it would be necessary to explore the annals of antiquity. The search would lead at...

  09/22/08 by John W. Shepard, Jr. · More from publication

• Religious conscience in colonial New England 

  Religious freedom, unlike so many other American liberties, is largely an indigenous product. It is not an inheritance transplanted from Europe by...

  09/22/08 by Robert T. Miller · More from publication

• The meaning of separation of church and state in the First Amendment 

  The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which heads the Bill of Rights, stipulates: "Congress shall make no law respecting an...

  09/22/08 by Joseph M. Dawson · More from publication

• Commentary: the European background of American freedom." 

  Educator John W. Shepard, Jr., had recently retired from his position at Seinan Gakuin College in Fukuoka, Japan, and assumed a position in the...

  09/22/08 by Richard V. Pierard · More from publication

• Religious freedom in America and the world: commentary on "religious conscience in colonial New England" 

  There is much with which to agree in Miller's article. Indeed we find it insightful, and strongly concur with his final sentence: There is much...

  09/22/08 by Mark D. Brewer · More from publication

• "The meaning of separation of church and state in the First Amendment" 

  Joseph M. Dawson wrote this essay for the Journal of Church and State when he was 80 years old--five years after retiring as the first executive...

  09/22/08 by J. Brent Walker · More from publication

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