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Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Many Americans have been taught a distorted, inaccurate account of our nation's founding, one that claims that the founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and that the country's founding political ideas developed without reference to Christianity. In this revelatory, rigorously argued new book, Mark David Hall thoroughly debunks that modern myth and shows instead that the founders' political ideas were profoundly...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
ix, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This history, based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers leading up to and encompassing the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian worldview motivated America's founding fathers, influenced national independence, inspired our foundational documents, and established the American nation--From publisher description
3) The founding fathers and the debate over religion in revolutionary America: a history in documents
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
ix, 196 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
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...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation. Yet, as Steven K. Green shows in this illuminating new book, it is little more than a myth. In Inventing a Christian America, Green, a leading historian...
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...
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