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This section includes 14 articles.
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Library Topics:
American Political
Culture
Federalism
The Covenant
Idea
Jewish Political Tradition:
Biblical Studies
Jewish Political
Thought
Jewish
Community
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Israel-Diaspora
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Israel:
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Government and
Politics
Israel and the
Middle East
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Daniel J. Elazar on
The Idea of Covenant
Featuring -
Covenant and Commonwealth: From Christian Separation through the Protestant Reformation
The history of the covenant tradition in the Western world has, in the course of two thousand years, undergone three separations, each of which has established a stream of covenant tradition of its own: (1) the separation between Judaism and Christianity; (2) the separation between Christianity and its Reformed wing; and (3) the separation between Jewish and Christian covenantalists and believers in a secular compact.
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Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel: Biblical Foundations & Jewish Expressions
The covenants of the Bible are the founding covenants of Western civilization. They have their beginnings in the need to establish clear and binding relationships between God and humans and among humans, relationships which must be understood as being political far more than theological in character, designed to establish lines of authority, distributions of power, bodies politic, and systems of law.
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COMPLETE LIST
- Covenant and Civil Society: The Constitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy -- The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 4, Preface (1998)
- Toward a Civil Constitutionalism - The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 4, Chapter 1 (1998)
- Covenant and Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal Democracy - Introduction - The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 3 (1998)
- Covenant and the American Founding - The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 3, Chapter 1 (1998)
- Recovenanting the American Polity (1997)
- The Biblical Covenant as the Foundation of Justice, Obligations and Rights (1996)
- Covenant and Commonwealth: From Christian Separation through the Protestant Reformation - Introduction - The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 2 (1996)
- Covenant Traditions in the West - The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 2, Chapter 1 (1996)
- Covenant as the Basis of the Jewish Political Tradition - Kinship and Consent: The Jewish Political Tradition and Its Contemporary Uses, Chapter One (1996)
- Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel: Biblical Foundations and Jewish Expressions - Introduction - The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 1 (1995)
- Covenant as a Political Concept - The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 1, Chapter 1 (1995)
- Covenant and the American Founding (1993)
- What Happened to Covenant in the Nineteenth Century? (1992)
- The Multi-faceted Covenant: The Biblical Approach to the Problem of Organizations, Constitutions, and Liberty as Reflected in the Thought of Johannes Althusius (1991)
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