The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution (American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas))
Sophisticated, well-documented, and forcefully argued. Extreme partisans who champion ‘Christian America’ or complete secularism will not like this book, but all other readers should come away much better informed about the past and also much better situated to adjudicate religious-political debates today. --Mark Noll, author ofGod and Race in American Politics: A Short HistorySlices through prevailing understandings of the founders’ religious beliefs by showing that they are neither what contemporary secularists nor what contemporary Christians often wish they were. --Russell Muirhead, author ofJust WorkLucidly written and suffused with great honesty. --Thomas L. Pangle, author ofPolitical Philosophy and the God of Abraham