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The Faiths Of The Founding Fathers
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Author : David L. Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-05
The Faiths Of The Founding Fathers written by David L. Holmes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this compact book, the author offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of the founding fathers. Although the founding fathers were religious men, Holmes shows that it was a faith quite unlike the Christianity of today's evangelicals.
The Religion Of The Founding Fathers
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Author : David Lynn Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Religion Of The Founding Fathers written by David Lynn Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The Faiths Of Our Fathers
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Author : Alf J. Mapp
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2003
The Faiths Of Our Fathers written by Alf J. Mapp and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this book, the author cuts through historical uncertainty to accurately portray the religious beliefs of 11 of America's founding fathers. (Motivation)
The Faiths Of The Founding Fathers
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Author : David Lynn Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Faiths Of The Founding Fathers written by David Lynn Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Deism categories.
Beginning with an account of the religious culture of the late colonial era, this book surveys the religious groups in each colony. It describes the various forms of Deism that flourished in America, highlighting the influence this intellectual movement had on the founding generation.
The Founding Fathers And The Debate Over Religion In Revolutionary America
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Author : Matthew Harris
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012
The Founding Fathers And The Debate Over Religion In Revolutionary America written by Matthew Harris and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history. Historians Matthew Harris and Thomas Kidd offer an authoritative examination of the essential documents needed to understand this debate. The texts included in this volume - writings and speeches from both well-known and obscure early American thinkers - show that religion played a prominent yet fractious role in the era of the American Revolution. In their personal beliefs, the Founders ranged from profound skeptics like Thomas Paine to traditional Christians like Patrick Henry. Nevertheless, most of the Founding Fathers rallied around certain crucial religious principles, including the idea that people were "created" equal, the belief that religious freedom required the disestablishment of state-backed denominations, the necessity of virtue in a republic, and the role of Providence in guiding the affairs of nations. Harris and Kidd show that through the struggles of war and the framing of the Constitution, Americans sought to reconcile their dedication to religious vitality with their commitment to religious freedom.
The Founding Fathers And The Place Of Religion In America
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Author : Frank Lambert
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-28
The Founding Fathers And The Place Of Religion In America written by Frank Lambert and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-28 with History categories.
How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency. Lambert recognizes that two sets of spiritual fathers defined the place of religion in early America: what Lambert calls the Planting Fathers, who brought Old World ideas and dreams of building a "City upon a Hill," and the Founding Fathers, who determined the constitutional arrangement of religion in the new republic. While the former proselytized the "one true faith," the latter emphasized religious freedom over religious purity. Lambert locates this shift in the mid-eighteenth century. In the wake of evangelical revival, immigration by new dissenters, and population expansion, there emerged a marketplace of religion characterized by sectarian competition, pluralism, and widened choice. During the American Revolution, dissenters found sympathetic lawmakers who favored separating church and state, and the free marketplace of religion gained legal status as the Founders began the daunting task of uniting thirteen disparate colonies. To avoid discord in an increasingly pluralistic and contentious society, the Founders left the religious arena free of government intervention save for the guarantee of free exercise for all. Religious people and groups were also free to seek political influence, ensuring that religion's place in America would always be a contested one, but never a state-regulated one. An engaging and highly readable account of early American history, this book shows how religious freedom came to be recognized not merely as toleration of dissent but as a natural right to be enjoyed by all Americans.
The Faiths Of Our Fathers
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Author : Alf Johnson Mapp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Faiths Of Our Fathers written by Alf Johnson Mapp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Freedom of religion categories.
In God We Trust
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Author : Norman Cousins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
In God We Trust written by Norman Cousins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Christianity categories.
Faith Of Our Founding Fathers
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Author : Tim LaHaye
language : en
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Release Date : 1996-06-01
Faith Of Our Founding Fathers written by Tim LaHaye and has been published by New Leaf Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-01 with History categories.
Secular textbooks now fill our classrooms, while the Ten Commandments have been removed from their walls. Is this the vision held by those who worked to found this nation? What faith did our founding fathers truly believe and practice in their daily lives, and what does it really matter for us? Were they God-fearing, Bible-believing Christians or simply enlightened Deists, Transcendentalists, and Unitarians? Today the debate rages on, becoming a polarizing cultural issue, the outcome of which will lead to a vastly different nation in the years ahead. This probing study: Examines the facts that have created debate for years among educators, scholars, and historians Studies the intimate papers, diaries, and letters of the founders themselves Helps solve this mystery of our nation's past so that we can best guide its future. Meticulously documented, Faith of Our Founding Fathers by best-selling author Tim LaHaye details the Christian principles of these early Americans, and notes how the argument for the separation of church and state has led us to the vast secularization of our culture. Studying the original writings of those who shaped this nation will help Christians present the case for renewing the former vision for this great country.
Faith And The Founders Of The American Republic
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Author : Daniel L. Dreisbach
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
Faith And The Founders Of The American Republic written by Daniel L. Dreisbach and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the views of a few famous founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Thomas Paine, as evidence that the founders were deists who advocated the strict separation of church and state. Popular Christian polemicists, on the other hand, have attempted to show that virtually all of the founders were pious Christians in favor of public support for religion. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, a diverse array of religious traditions informed the political culture of the American founding. Faith and the Founders of the American Republic includes studies both of minority faiths, such as Islam and Judaism, and of major traditions like Calvinism. It also includes nuanced analysis of specific founders-Quaker fellow-traveler John Dickinson, prominent Baptists Isaac Backus and John Leland, and Theistic Rationalist Gouverneur Morris, among others-with attention to their personal histories, faiths, constitutional philosophies, and views on the relationship between religion and the state. This volume will be a crucial resource for anyone interested in the place of faith in the founding of the American constitutional republic, from political, religious, historical, and legal perspectives.