The Superiority of an Evangelical Model of Religious Liberty: A Critique of Secular and Roman Catholic Conceptions - Hardcover

by Daniel J. Trippie (Author), Daniel R. Heimbach (Foreword by)

Religious liberty is America's first freedom. But in recent years, challenges to religious liberty have abounded. For example, some claim that religious freedom promotes intolerance and bigotry, while others contend religious freedom condemns people to hell. And others weaponize religious liberty for culture warring. Nevertheless, evangelicals believe that religious liberty is fundamentally a matter of human dignity; thus, religious liberty is a right we must preserve for all people. This book will explore how evangelical anthropology, cosmology, and eschatology offer the most stable basis for religious freedom. Secular and Roman Catholic theories may positively contribute to religious liberty, but the evangelical model is superior because it answers fundamental questions left unanswered in other models.

Author Biography

Daniel J. Trippie is a native of Buffalo, New York. He holds a PhD in ethics from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and an MDiv from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Trippie's focus of study is in public theology with a special emphasis on religious freedom. He is the co-author of He Said, She Said, God Said: Biblical Answers to Marriage Questions (2013).