'Is Not This a Paradox?' Public Morality and the Unitarian Defense of State-Supported Religion in Massachusetts, 1806–1833
Autor: | Nathan S. Rives |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Zdroj: | The New England Quarterly. 86:232-265 |
ISSN: | 1937-2213 0028-4866 |
DOI: | 10.1162/tneq_a_00277 |
Popis: | The outcome of the legal and constitutional controversy leading to the fall of the state-supported religious establishment in Massachusetts followed a schism in the Congregationalist churches. In that controversy, Unitarians defended religious taxation as an expedient means to advance their desired ends of a public morality rooted in theological liberalism. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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