States, the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America... Democracy in America - Stran 239avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 455 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| David Nasaw - 2007 - 932 strani
...is no country in the world," Alexis de Tocqueville observed during his travels in the 1830s, "where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America. "Thirty years later, Anthony Trollope described the same phenomenon, albeit with a touch of irony.... | |
| Philip Jenkins - 2007 - 354 strani
...the Republic? In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville remarked that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." De Tocqueville found part of the difference in the role of church establishment: Europeans created... | |
| Rick Davis - 2007 - 270 strani
...of his famous work published in 1835, Tocqueville observed, 'There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."8 That is no longer true today. As a nation, we have become morally and spiritually bankrupt.... | |
| Patrick Mendis - 2007 - 442 strani
...de Tocqueville observed more than a century and a half ago: "There is no country in the world, where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."12 Such traditions remained in the religious community of Perham, where I often attended their... | |
| Timothy Larsen, Daniel J. Treier - 2007 - 289 strani
...published Democracy in America (1835) in which he wrote that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."11 This still seemed to be the case as the new century dawned, but there were troubling signs... | |
| Scott A. Shay - 2007 - 324 strani
...religious countries in the Western world, and as Tocqueville said, "There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than America,"16 the ADL'S fight is likely to fail. America is 86% Christian, 8% other - including Jewish... | |
| Stephen Colwell - 1854 - 176 strani
...political institutions. One of the most profound Statesmen who has visited our country, remarks : " There is no country in the whole world in which the...and there can be no greater proof of its utility and conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully exercised over the most enlightened... | |
| George Autry Jr., George Autry Jr - 2007 - 354 strani
...society. In the United States, the sovereign authority is religion. There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence...utility and of its conformity to human nature than that influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth. In the United... | |
| Neil Campbell, Alasdair Kean - 1997 - 314 strani
...to religion estimated at $57 billion a year in the mid-1990s. There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America/wrote de Tocqueville in 1835 (1965:233), but his comment might equally apply to the contemporary... | |
| Fred E. Jandt - 2007 - 468 strani
...or protect it — and that humans are subjugated by nature. There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835/1945) The US "now has a greater diversity of religious... | |
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