In 1869, the Cincinnati school board ended a forty-year tradition of Bible reading in the schools in an attempt to encourage Catholics to use them, thus provoking national controversy and a lawsuit brought by pro-Bible advocates. Scholars regularly cite the Ohio Supreme Court decision in favor of the school board as a landmark in the legal separation of church and state. This article interrogates the meaning of the secularization of law by examining expressions of juristic, pedagogic, and popular consciousness in the multiple levels and spaces where individuals raised and resolved constitutional questions on education. Dissenting Christian tradition shaped the legal brief of Stanley Matthews, the school board's lead attorney. Matthews' sacralized the religious liberty guarantee found in the Ohio Constitution within a post-millennialist framework. Ohio Chief Justice John Welch hybridized Christian dissenting tradition with deistic rationalism in <u>Board of Education v. Minor, et al</u>, thus appealing to as broad a constituency as had the right to elect justices to the Ohio Supreme Court. The limited, technical ruling allowed for a metropole/periphery divide in educational practice, so that Bible reading and prayer in Ohio public schools continued well into the 20th century. Far from a landmark in secularization of the law, the Bible War case demonstrates the persistent power of religion to frame law, including the law of religious liberty.

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宗教自由神圣化：基督教异议传统的持续存在和辛辛那提圣经战争

1869 年，辛辛那提学校董事会结束了在学校里四十年的圣经阅读传统，试图鼓励天主教徒使用它们，从而引发了全国性的争议和支持圣经的倡导者提起的诉讼。学者们经常引用俄亥俄州最高法院支持学校董事会的裁决作为政教分离的一个里程碑。本文通过考察个人提出和解决有关教育的宪法问题的多个层面和空间中的法学、教育学和大众意识的表达，来质疑法律世俗化的意义。反对的基督教传统塑造了学校董事会首席律师斯坦利·马修斯的法律简报。马修斯 在后千禧年主义框架内神圣化了俄亥俄州宪法中的宗教自由保障。俄亥俄州首席大法官约翰·韦尔奇在 <u>Board of Education v. Minor, et al</u> 中将基督教异议传统与自然神论理性主义相结合，从而吸引了与有权选举俄亥俄州最高法院法官一样广泛的选区。有限的技术性裁决允许在教育实践中出现大都市/边缘地区的分歧，因此俄亥俄州公立学校的圣经阅读和祈祷一直持续到 20 世纪。圣经战争案远非法律世俗化的里程碑，它展示了宗教在制定法律（包括宗教自由法）方面的持久力量。Board of Education v. Minor 等人，因此呼吁尽可能广泛的选民有权选举俄亥俄州最高法院的法官。有限的技术性裁决允许在教育实践中出现大都市/边缘地区的分歧，因此俄亥俄州公立学校的圣经阅读和祈祷一直持续到 20 世纪。圣经战争案远非法律世俗化的里程碑，它展示了宗教在制定法律（包括宗教自由法）方面的持久力量。Board of Education v. Minor 等人，因此呼吁尽可能广泛的选民有权选举俄亥俄州最高法院的法官。有限的技术性裁决允许在教育实践中出现大都市/边缘地区的分歧，因此俄亥俄州公立学校的圣经阅读和祈祷一直持续到 20 世纪。圣经战争案远非法律世俗化的里程碑，它展示了宗教在制定法律（包括宗教自由法）方面的持久力量。