Title: The forgotten founders on religion and public life /
Authors: Dreisbach, Daniel L.; Hall, Mark David, 1966-; Morrison, Jeffry H., 1961-
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Founding Fathers of the United States Views on religion.; Religion and politics United States History; Church and state United States History; United States Religion
Contents: Famous founders and forgotten founders : what's the difference, and does the difference matter? / Daniel L. Dreisbach -- The way of duty : Abigail Adams and religion / Edith B. Gelles -- Samuel Adams : America's Puritan revolutionary / Gary Scott Smith -- Oliver Ellsworth's Calvinist vision of church and state in the early republic / William R. Casto -- Alexander Hamilton, theistic rationalist / Gregg L. Frazer -- Patrick Henry, religious liberty, and the search for civic virtue / Thomas E. Buckley -- John Jay and the "great plan of Providence" / Jonathan Den Hartog -- Thomas Paine's civil religion of reason / David J. Voelker -- Anglican moderation : religion and the political thought of Edmund Randolph / Kevin R. Hardwick -- Benjamin Rush and revolutionary Christian reform / Robert H. Abzug -- Roger Sherman : an old Puritan in a new nation / Mark David Hall -- Mercy Otis Warren on church and state / Rosemarie Zagarri.