Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: The United States: Strict Separation under Fire Chapter 2: The Netherlands: Principled Pluralism Chapter 3: Australia: Pragmatic Pluralism Chapter 4: England: Partial Establishment Chapter 5: Germany: Partnership and Autonomy Chapter 6: Church and State in Pluralistic Democracies

About the Author

Stephen V. Monsma is research fellow in the Paul Henry Institute at Calvin College and emeritus professor of political science at Pepperdine University. J. Christopher Soper is Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University.

Reviews

Readers of Pro Rege may be surprised to find such insightful and articulate authors writing to such a broad audience with pleasingly familiar insights and arguments... The authors are to be commended for articulating an orthodox Reformed vision of justice for a broken world, and doing so within the parameters of inferences based upon comparative research... Without burdening the text with Reformed terminology, Monsma and Soper have seriously challenged governing elites and their intellectual supporters to actually redeem fallen and sinful structures of contemporary democratic governments. This is exemplary reformational scholarship. -- Jack R. Van Der Slik Pro Rege One of my favorite books on religion in public life. On a subject especially in need of light, insight, and balance, its very readable historical, legal, and comparative analyses are most enlightening and fair. I recommend it for college classes and as good reading for ordinary citizens. -- Christian Smith, director, Center for the Study of Religion and Society, University of Notre Dame