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A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future
University of California Press
October 2007
On Sale: October 15, 2007
329 pages
ISBN: 0520254147
EAN: 9780520254145
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
"Do you know if you are going to heaven?" Shortly after
being appointed the first Director of Faith-Based and
Community Initiatives--the "faith czar"--John J. DiIulio Jr.
was asked this question. Suddenly DiIulio, a Catholic
Democrat who pioneered programs for inner-city children, was
acutely aware that he was no longer a private citizen who
might have humored the television evangelist standing before
him. Now he was, as he recalls in his
introduction--"responsible for assisting the president in
faithfully upholding the Constitution . . . and faithfully
acting in the public interest without regard to religious
identities." Using his brief tenure in the Bush
administration as a springboard, this lively, informative,
and entertaining book leaps into the ongoing debate over
whether as a nation America is Christian or secular and to
what degree church-state separation is compelled by the
Constitution. Avoiding political pieties, DiIulio makes an
impassioned case for a middle way. Written by a leading
political scholar, Godly Republic offers a fast-paced,
faith-inspired, and fact-based approach to enhancing
America's civic future for one and all.
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