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Borgia family Fiction Christianity and politics United States History Church and state Church and state Fiction Church and state United States Conspiracies Fiction Freedom of religion United States Renaissance Italy Rome Fiction VI, Pope Alexander 1431-1503 Fiction Women poisoners FictionSummary: Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KRUJordan, James
Summary: "The United States was founded, in part, on religious freedom--the idea that government should not be involved in the ways that people worship their deity or practice their religion. However, because historically most Americans belonged to Christian denominations, often religious symbols were incorporated into public buildings and government activities. In recent years, however, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.44 JORSummary: "An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ......
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by ARC Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu Movie ForGreengrass, Mark
Summary: "This latest addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographical and political frameworks of Western Europe as we know it. From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of this era. Martin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 GRECarter, Jimmy
Summary: President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In this book, he offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 CARCarter, Jimmy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.0973 CARFreeman, Charles
Summary: A radical reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity in 368 AD on the later Roman world, and on Western civilization. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, Constantine turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.12 FREWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.1 WILHall, Mark David
Summary: Many Americans have been taught a distorted, inaccurate account of our nation's founding, one that claims that the founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and that the country's founding political ideas developed without reference to Christianity. In this revelatory, rigorously argued new book, Mark David Hall thoroughly debunks that modern myth and shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.1 HALSummary: A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family God's 2016Berlinerblau, Jacques.
Summary: Argues that a return to a more secular America will promote religious diversity and freedom, and help eliminate the widening divide between religious conservatives and staunch atheists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211.6 BERPhillips, Kevin P.
Summary: Former Republican strategist Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the political coalition, led by radical religion, that is driving America to the brink of disaster. From Ancient Rome to the British Empire, Phillips demonstrates that every world-dominating power has been brought down by a related set of causes: a lethal combination of global over-reach, militant religion, resource problems,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 PHIStewart, Matthew
Summary: Discusses how America's revolutionaries--including Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine and Ethan Allen--were inspired by ideas that were ancient and pagan in nature, including the work of Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius and Dutch heretic Benedict de Spinoza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 STEHendrix, John
Summary: Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BONKertzer, David I.
Summary: Draws on previously unknown documents from the Vatican archives to detail a plot on the part of Pope Pius IX and his successor, Leo XIII, to block the unification of Italy and to seize control of Rome and the Papal States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.63 KERBalmer, Randall Herbert
Summary: Solemn Reverence vividly portrays both the history of the separation of church and state and the various attempts to undermine that wall of separation. Despite the fact that the First Amendment and the separation of church and state has served the nation remarkably well, Balmer shows that previous episodes and ongoing efforts indicate its future is by no means assured.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Truth to Power 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.1 BALSeidel, Andrew L
Summary: In today’s contentious political climate, understanding religion’s role in American government is more important than ever. Christian nationalists assert that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and advocate an agenda based on this popular historical claim. But is this belief true? The Founding Myth answers the question once and for all. Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 277.307 SEIDunant, Sarah.
Summary: "By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy are matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city of Italians. If...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: After suffering the loss of his mother and separation from his sister and the girl he loved, Jordan Riley has filled the holes in his soul with anger. He decides to reject the God he leaned on in his youth and sues his hometown to have a popular statue of Jesus removed. The conflict causes him to cross paths with a spirited young newscaster named Faith, who opposes Jordan's suit in surprising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KinBrown, Frederick
Contents: From the life of Jesus to the Sacr-̌Coeur -- Birth pangs of a secular republic -- The crash of the union gňřale -- France on horse -- The ogre of modernity : Eiffel's tower -- The Panama scandal -- The Dreyfus affair -- The burning of the charity bazaar -- Two banquets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.081 BROPoole, Sara
Summary: A year after helping Rodrigo Borgia to become Pope Alexander VI, court poisoner Francesca is charged with safeguarding his position, an agenda that exposes her to a violent plot to destroy the Borgia family and seize control of the Catholic Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POOSummary: Christmas has always been an exceptional time of love and tradition in the small town of Trapper Falls, Alaska. Hometown of Mayor Dan Reed, together with his brother Greg they dedicate time away from their adventure tour company to drape the town in Christmas cheer. When Dan's old high School rival Mitch Bright returns home after 20 years, Dan is immediately suspicious. Mitch is a highly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix Entertainment 2011
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday CPoole, Sara
Summary: Borgia court poisoner Francesca Giordano joins forces with her lover, Cesare Borgia, to discover unravel a conspiracy that threatens Christendom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012