Article
La Filosofía Protestante Fundacional de Estados Unidos
Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-14-2015
Keywords
- Church and state,
- Protestantism,
- Dissenting churches,
- Universal priesthood
Disciplines
Abstract
Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about “Enlightenment" and the republican ethos o f citizenship. The author does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment and enrich it by recovering its cultural and discursive religious contexts, specifically the discourse of Protestant dissent.He argues that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of biblical interpretation, an outgrowth of the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, helped promote religious disestablishment in the early modern West.
Journal Title
Derecho, Estado y Religión
First Department
Church History
Acknowledgements
Retrieved June 6, 2018 from http://publicaciones.uap.edu.ar/index.php/revistaDER/article/view/14
Citation Information
Nicholas P. Miller and Maria Victoria Feito-Torrez. "La Filosofía Protestante Fundacional de Estados Unidos" Vol. 1 Iss. 1 (2015) p. 7 - 23 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nicholas_miller/37/
Text in Spanish, translated from English by Maria Victoria Feito-Torrez
First appeared: “America's Founding Protestant Philosophy," Liberty (January-February 2014)