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Title: Church Law: Suggestions of the Law of the Protestant Episocpal Church in the United States o...
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Publication Date: February 2010
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reviewed Church Law: Suggestions of the Law of the Protestant Episocpal Church in the United States o... on November 15, 20121. The Birth of Freedom
In the gray dawn of September 21, 490 B.C., 9,000 citizen-soldiers of Athens formed ranks on a plain by the Bay of Marathon. Before sunset, they would fight the seminal battle in the history of freedom. Who were they? What were they fighting for? With these questions, our course begins.
Battle of Marathon - Athenians fighting for political freedom from Persian rule.
2. Athenian Democracy
The Persian Wars made Athens the leader of the Greek world. Under Pericles, Athens became history's first true democracy—and an imperial power. What is the Athenian legacy to freedom?
A true democracy - not of bureaucrats and politicians. Defining character of Athens - to be free.
3. Athens—Freedom and Cultural Creativity
Athenian freedom sparked an intellectual revolution that rivaled the scientific revolution of our own day. The Athenians invented the liberal arts in order to educate free citizens for self-government.
4. Athenian Tragedy—Education for Freedom
Tragedy was the characteristic cultural statement of Athenian democracy. Sophocles's plays about the House of Oedipus are key documents in the history of freedom, exploring enduring questions of morality, law, and conscience.
Do we have free will? Oedipus.
5. Socrates on Trial
In 399 B.C., a recently defeated Athens executed Socrates for impiety. The trial remains a test case for all democratic societies, and Socrates an enduring witness to freedom and the power of ideas.
Freedom of soul - you can imprison me or kill me but if I do what is just I am still free. Freedom of conscience - the individual can know what is right and wrong which is not necessarily what the state says is right and wrong.
6. Alexander the Great
The conquests of this young prince of Macedon opened a new epoch in the history of Greece, the world, and freedom.
Great individuals change history.
Athenian democracy was a failure - we need a great king.
7. The Roman Republic
The American Founders took the Roman republic's balanced constitution as a model. It secured liberty under law. Under it; Rome rose to mastery of a world empire.
Polybius - strength of Rome due to its constitution.
Structured republic with balance of government...
Monarchy (executive): strong leadership
Democracy: broad base of popular support
Aristocracy: small body capable experienced leaders
8. Julius Caesar
By the first century B.C., Rome was the only superpower in its world. Yet at the height of their power, the Romans lost their political liberty and turned to Julius Caesar. How did this happen? What did it mean for freedom?
The Roman people rejected republican government and turned to monarchy- Julius Caesar.
9. Freedom in the Roman Empire
If the Caesars ended political liberty, they also expanded individual freedom. A look at a day in the life of Pompeii suggests that, in many ways, the Rome of the Caesars is the model for America today.
Low taxes!
10. Rome—Freedom and Cultural Creativity
As in the Athenian democracy, freedom in the Roman Empire led to a burst of intellectual creativity that would lay the foundations for the next 1,000 years of European civilization.
11. Gibbon on Rome’s Decline and Fall
For the Founders and Edward Gibbon, the fall of Rome was the tale of how a people had traded republican liberty for the false security of absolutism. What can the Roman Empire's decline teach us today?
Loss of political liberty.
Civic virtue lost amidst expansion of the empire.
True freedom would be lost as the rights of citizenship expanded (as democracy expanded).
Failure of the Romans to continue their citizen army (militia is best guarantee for freedom). Rome rose with a martial common people.
Vast increase in taxation. Large inefficient bureaucracy. Large inefficient army. Middle class lost confidence.
Failures of foreign policies - frontier issues.
12. Jesus
What makes Jesus of Nazareth, who, like Socrates, never wrote a book or had any wealth or worldly power, one of the most important figures in the history of human freedom?
Freedom from sin and death
13. Jesus and Socrates
Jesus and Socrates invite comparison as awe-inspiring teachers, as seminal figures in the history of freedom, and as witnesses to the claims of conscience.
14. Paul the Apostle
Paul's preaching drew upon concepts of freedom in some of the most innovative currents of Roman imperial thought. His letter to the Galatians is rightly regarded as the Magna Carta of Christian liberty.
15. Freedom in the Middle Ages
Far from being an age of absolutism, the Middle Ages in Western Europe saw the growth of ideas and institutions basic to the history of liberty, including representative government and the right to revolution.
16. Luther and the Protestant Reformation
Luther is one of the proofs that great men and women—not anonymous forces—make history. He shattered the medieval world and unleashed currents that continue to shape the history of freedom.
17. From Machiavelli to the Divine Right of Kings
Are the state and its leaders bound by the same moral values that should govern private conduct? Machiavelli said no. His praise of the absolute, amoral state laid the basis for the greatest single challenge to freedom in the modern age.
18. The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty
State absolutism received its preeminent early modern statement in the belief that kings are accountable to God alone. But this notion met with differing fates in France and the English-speaking world, with vast implications for freedom.
Magna Carta - The law is above the State.
Parliament - counter to absolute power.
Common law - lex terra, law of the land. King is below the law.
19. The Shot Heard ’Round the World
In the predawn darkness of April 19, 1775, 77 citizen-soldiers of Lexington, Massachusetts, formed ranks on their village green. Before noon, they would fight the greatest battle in the history of freedom since Marathon. Who were they? What were they fighting for? With these questions begins the second half of our course.
20. The Tyranny of George III
What turned loyal British colonists into armed traitors declaring their independence? Edmund Burke suggested the answer when he observed that in England, "the great contests for freedom were, from the earliest times, chiefly upon the question of taxes."
21. What the Declaration of Independence Says
America is the first nation in history founded upon a statement of principles. The Declaration draws upon two great legacies of freedom: the natural-law tradition of Greece and Rome, and the experience of England.
22. Natural Law and the Declaration
Born in democratic Athens, refined by Cicero, affirmed by St. Paul, and incorporated into first Roman and then the English common law, natural law would prove crucial to the American founding.
23. Miracle at Philadelphia
"Miracles do not cluster. Hold on to the Constitution," said Daniel Webster. Wondrous as the Constitution is, it is also explicable as the work of statesmen educated for freedom, and steeped in the lessons of history.
Madison’s examples: Greece (Athens and Sparta) and Rome only successful republics. Historians rather than philosophers, Polybius above all. Chief lesson: power corrupts, but power is necessary. Fear of democracy, or an excess of democracy. England: goal of government was liberty. Montesquieu.
24. What the Constitution Says
Here you will "visit" a state ratifying convention in order to analyze both the Constitution (especially as explained by The Federalist) and the case made by its Anti-Federalist foes, who argued that small republics and virtue both private and public are the best safeguards forliberty.
25. The Bill of Rights
Basic to the Constitution's success has been the ability to amend it. A careful analysis of the first two Amendments paves the way for discussions of the relevance of the Framers' intent to America today and of the Founders' belief that every right entails a corresponding duty.
26. Liberty and Lee at Gettysburg
The American founding did not resolve the questions of slavery and union. Both were settled only by the Civil War. This lecture asks why a man of Lee's character, who saw the wrong of slavery, chose nonetheless to follow his state and the Confederate cause.
27. Liberty and Lincoln at Gettysburg
Lincoln's address over those who fell in the Civil War's biggest battle took only moments, but spoke to the ages. It is as basic an American founding document as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
28. FDR and the Progressive Tradition
FDR's reforms played a crucial role in meeting the awful test of the Great Depression, and may have saved constitutional government in America.
29. Why the French Revolution Failed
The excesses of democracy in France spawned tyranny and wars of conquest. Why did these excesses occur, and how did the young American republic manage to avoid them?
30. The Liberal Tradition
The mighty tradition of liberty under law and representative government runs back to the Magna Carta and beyond. More recently, this tradition has been powerfully shaped by great classical liberal thinkers such as Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Lord Acton.
Freedom in morality.
31. Churchill and the War for Freedom
On June 4, 1940—amid the sternest days in his country's history—Britain's new Prime Minister vowed that his island nation would "never surrender." He was a model of true statesmanship, and freedom's champion in an hour of urgent peril.
32. The Illiberal Tradition
This lecture examines the ideas that shaped Hitler's nightmare vision. Despite Hitler's defeat, nationalism, socialism, and vulgarized Darwinism remain influential today as counterfeit forms of liberty.
33. Hitler and the War Against Freedom
Hitler's career shows what happens when a nation and its leaders lose their moral compass. His terrifying story teaches us that free peoples must hold the values of liberty as universal and be willing to defend them if liberty is to endure.
34. The Cold War
World War II added to the power of Stalin, a tyrant no less despotic than his enemy Hitler. But standing guard over freedom was an America led by presidents like Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Reagan, all of whom shared the great liberal idea that those with power have a moral duty to defend the weak.
35. Civil Disobedience and Social Change
In the decades after 1945, nonviolent campaigns for freedom—and above all the movement against racial discrimination led by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.—made key contributions to the growth of liberty.
36. Freedom and the Lessons of History
Americans enter the 21st century convinced that we are opening a new era of liberty, prosperity, and peace. Europeans entered the last century with similar beliefs. We close with a cautionary note, taking up a theme first sounded in Athens 25 centuries ago.
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