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The American Kings

Growth in Presidential Power from George Washington to Barack Obama

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

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The American Kings

Growth in Presidential Power from George Washington to Barack Obama

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

An inevitable feature of democratic governments is the tendency of their chief executives to pursue domestic policies and foreign wars without the consent of the people. America's own presidents have studiously ignored Congress and the states and have begun to act like all-powerful kings. U.S. presidents make wild promises to get elected, use temporary crises to expand personal power, publish propaganda to divert attention away from their actions, pass out benefits to favored sections of the population in order to get re-elected, and suppress segments of the population who disagree with them. This book chronicles the story of America's lapse into tyranny at the hands of some of its best-known presidents.

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162564194X

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9781625641946

Do My Prophets No Harm

Revelation and Religious Liberty in the Bible

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

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Revelation and Religious Liberty in the Bible

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

A foundational law promoting worship of the God of the Exodus (the Decalogue's First Commandment) has little meaning without a government policy permitting such worship. Robert Kimball Shinkoskey discusses policies in the Bible which enact freedom of religion for prophets and other dissidents who work to restore worship of the God of their ancestors. In the process, he challenges the theological idea of the cessation of prophecy. New revelation from God is necessary to rescue ancient Israel from backsliding and restore her to a place of security and tranquility in a Mediterranean world gone mad with imperial war-making.

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1608998452

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9781608998456

Democracy and the Ten Commandments

The Politics of Limited Government in the Bible

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

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Democracy and the Ten Commandments

The Politics of Limited Government in the Bible

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For 2,000 years Western culture has leaned heavily on the Ten Commandments for guidance in religion, ethics, and morality. The author, drawing upon modern Biblical science, demonstrates that those laws were designed for an entirely different purpose--to provide alternatives to repressive policies Israel reeled under in Egypt. The Decalogue is a political document designed to limit government intrusion into private lives. Its precepts deal with matters like political parties and intellectual freedom, central banking and taxation, occupational choice, free economy, humane working conditions, local government, right to life and international relations, land possession and inheritance, equal justice and education, and citizenship and public health. The author's interpretation necessitates a wholesale repositioning of Biblical religion. The Bible is not a book about religious worship, but is rather a book about citizen-empowered local democracy. This essay suggests a way out of the woods for an American democracy that has lost its way in a headlong veer toward heavy-handed central government.

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1498290108

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9781498290104

Biblical Captivity

Aggression and Oppression in the Ancient World

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

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Biblical Captivity

Aggression and Oppression in the Ancient World

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

Early literary man learned that free speech and free labor were frequently suppressed or obliterated by powerful governments in the Near Eastern world. This is the source of the Bible's passionate interest in liberation from political and economic repression. Moses and his people in Egypt, for example, experienced the rapid disintegration of their traditional right to religious liberty and self-directed labor. They attempted to rectify the situation at Sinai and in Canaan. Mesopotamians and Egyptians, Greeks, Sicilians, and Romans labored against tyranny as well. Robert Kimball Shinkoskey focuses on stories, laws, and movements dealing with the problem of political idolatry in the ancient world. His purpose is to show that the Bible is a civic narrative as much as a religious one, and that the Ten Commandments are articles in a constitutional law system that promotes the steady rule of law rather than the capricious rule of man.

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Do My Prophets No Harm

Revelation and Religious Liberty in the Bible

By: Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

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Democracy and the Ten Commandments

The Politics of Limited Government in the Bible

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The Politics of Limited Government in the Bible

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The American Kings

Growth in Presidential Power from George Washington to Barack Obama

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Growth in Presidential Power from George Washington to Barack Obama

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Biblical Captivity

Aggression and Oppression in the Ancient World

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Aggression and Oppression in the Ancient World

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Book's by Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

The American Kings

The American Kings

Do My Prophets No Harm

Do My Prophets No Harm

Democracy and the Ten Commandments

Democracy and the Ten Commandments

Biblical Captivity

Biblical Captivity

Do My Prophets No Harm

Do My Prophets No Harm

Democracy and the Ten Commandments

Democracy and the Ten Commandments

The American Kings

The American Kings

Biblical Captivity

Biblical Captivity

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