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\nSTATE  \nVolume XNumber I  \nWinter 1968  \nV.101968  \n| VOLUME X   | WINTER 1968   |  | NUMBER 1   |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\n# CONTENTSCONTENTS\n\nEDITORIAL:A FREE CHURCH IN A FREE SOCIETY5AMERICAN CATHOLICS AND THE SECOND SPANISHREPUBLIC,1911-1936  \nJ.David Valaik 13PROTESTANTISM AND CONTEMPORARY FRENCHEDUCATION LAWS  \nRobert M.Healey29A SWISS SCHOOL PRAYER CASE  \nHenry Delfiner 37GERMAN PROTESTANTS AND THE ECUMENICALMOVEMENTS:THE WAR-GUILT IMBROGLIO,1919-1926Daniel R.Borg 51TSARIST RUSSIA AND THE RUSSIFICATION OF THEBURIATS  \nJesse V.Clardy73CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICS IN SOUTHERN RHODESIAJohn F.Piper,Jr.83CHURCH AND STATE AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTIN CHILEFredrick B.Pike99BOOK REVIEWS:  \nHeimert,Alan,Religion and the American Mind:From the GreatAzakening_to the Revolution115By Edwin S.Gaustad  \nPratt,John Webb,Religion,Politics and Diversity:The Church-State Theme in Newe York History117By Leo Pfeffer  \nPotts,E.Daniel,British Baptist Missionaries in India,1793-1837:The History of Seranpore and its Missions119By Charles W.Forman  \nFrend,W.H.C,Martyrdom and Persecution in the EarlyChurch:A Study of a Conflict fron the Macabees to Donatus121By Kenneth Scott Latourette  \nMurray,John Courtney(Editor),Freedom and Man123By Leonard A.Duce  \nPaul,Harry W..The Second Ralliement:The Rapprochementbetveen Church and State in France in the TwentiethCentury126By Roy Carroll  \nDunn,Mary Maples,Willian Pen:Politics and Conscience127By Edwin S.Gaustad  \nStroup,Herbert,Church and State in Confrontation:A Socio-logical Study of Church-State Relations from Old Testament  \nTines to the Present129By Walfred H.Peterson  \nStapleton,Thomas,The Life and Illustrious Martyydom of Sir  \nThomas More132By Harry F.Snapp  \nBonhoeffer,Dietrich,The Way to Freedom134By N.Patrick Murray  \nMonter,E.William,Calvin's Geneva136By William W.MacDonald  \nFletcher,William C..A Study in Surzival:The Church in Russia,1927-1943138Struve,Nikita,Christians in Contemporary Russia138By Alfred Levin  \nSeifert,Harvey,Conquest by Suffering:The Process and Prospectsof Nonviolent Resistance140By Culbert G.Rutenber  \nO'Neill,Charles Edwards,Church and State in French ColonialLouisiana:Policy and Politics to 1732142By Glenn O.Hilburn  \nHamilton,Michael P.(Editor),The Vietnam War:ChristianPerspectives144By Bob E.Patterson  \nBerbusse,Edward J..The United States in Puerto Rico,1898-1900145By George J.Stevenson  \nFletcher,William C.and Anthony J.Strover,Religion and theSearch for New Ideals in the USSR148By Walfred H.Peterson  \nSilvert,Kalman H.(Editor),Churches and States:The ReligiousInstitution and Modernisation151By Edward J.JurjiBOOK NOTES153NOTES ON CHURCH-STATE AFFAIRS160RECENT DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS IN CHURCHAND STATE171BOOKS RECEIVED173CONTRIBUTORS AND REVIEWERS176  \n# EDITORIAL\n\nA Free Church in a Free Society  \nThe separation of church and state is historically rooted in adistinct doctrine of the church and a particular view of thestate.It is derived from the principle of voluntarism in religionand the concept of the free or secular state in which the church,independent of the state and political control,is thus to bedependent upon God for its authority and the accomplishmentof its mission.Its theological basis,as Winthrop S.Hudsonhas so eloquently attested,is the sovereignty of God and thehuman problem of sin.The concept of a free church and a freesociety,although actually realized in only a limited number ofmodern nation-states,is clearly one of the major achievementsof the post-Reformation era.This is not to say that the notionof a free church and a free society came as a direct consequenceof the Protestant Reformation,for such indeed was certainly notthe case.  \nClassical Protestantism,as represented in the Right Wingof the Reformation,was manifestly committed to the union ofchurch and state,a concept which Catholics are prone to identifyas primarily a Protestant principle growing out of the Reforma-tion.For this union was not 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