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The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith. By Os Guinness. New York: The Free Press1993. Pp. 458. $24.95. ISBN: 0-029-13171-5. Paper. $12.95. ISBN: 0-029-13173-1.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Michael J. DeBoer
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 783 - 788
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2001

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References

1. Os Guinness is no stranger to this Journal. Guinness, Os, Tribespeople, Idiots or Citizens?: Religious Liberty and the Reforging of the American Public Philosophy, 8 J. L. & Relig. 33CrossRefGoogle Scholar; see Destro, Robert A., Book Review, Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace: The Religious Liberty Clauses and the American Public Philosophy, 8 J. L. & Relig. 491 (Hunter, James Davison & Guinness, Os, eds., 1990)Google Scholar.

2. Os Guinness served as the Executive Director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation and participated in the drafting of The Williamsburg Charter. This document was composed to commemorate the bicentennial of the call of Virginia for a religious liberty provision in the federal constitution, and to reaffirm the vision and principles set forth in the First Amendment. See The Williamsburg Charter: A National Celebration and Reaffirmation of the First Amendment Religious Liberty Clauses (1988), reprinted in 8 J. L. & Relig. 5. Its signers included nationally prominent political leaders, religious leaders, labor leaders, leaders of racial and ethnic minorities, doctors, lawyers, journalists, and academics. Id. at 23-31.