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(0)Daniel L Dreisbach
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 331 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Shedding new light on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Daniel Dreisbach analyzes the founders' diverse use of scripture, ranging...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
