The forgotten founders on religion and public life
By: edited by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, and Jeffry H. Morrison ; foreword by Mark A. Noll.
Contributors: Dreisbach, Daniel L.; Hall, Mark David, 1966-; Morrison, Jeffry H., 1961-
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Notre Dame, In
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780268026028
Subjects: Founding Fathers of the United States -- Views on religion; Religion and politics -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Church and state -- United States -- History -- 18th century; United States -- Religion -- To 1800
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Famous founders and forgotten founders : what's the difference, and does the difference matter? / Daniel L. Dreisbach; title: The way of duty : Abigail Adams and religion / Edith B. Gelles; title: Samuel Adams : America's Puritan revolutionary / Gary Scott Smith; title: Oliver Ellsworth's Calvinist vision of church and state in the early republic / William R. Casto; title: Alexander Hamilton, theistic rationalist / Gregg L. Frazer; title: Patrick Henry, religious liberty, and the search for civic virtue / Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.; title: John Jay and the "great plan of Providence" / Jonathan Den Hartog; title: Thomas Paine's civil religion of reason / David J. Voelker; title: Anglican moderation : religion and the political thought of Edmund Randolph; title: Kevin R. Hardwick; title: Benjamin Rush and revolutionary christian reform / Robert H. Abzug; title: Roger Sherman : an old Puritan in a new nation / Mark David Hall; title: Mercy Otis Warren on church and state / Rosemarie Zagarri.