Sworn on the Altar of God
Subtitle: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson (Library of Religious Biography Series)
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780802801562
Subjects: Christian life & practice; History; Political structure & processes; Religion: general; Presidents & Heads of State; Historical - U.S; Political History; Religion And Politics; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Presidents; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Christianity - History - General; Jefferson, Thomas; Religion; United States; 1743-1826; Biography; Jefferson, Thomas,
First sentence: Jefferson's comments on Anglicanism, from his Notes on the State of Virginia, were penned two centuries after England's first colonial forays into the Western world and exactly 180 years after the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown.
Description: This biography treats the religious significance of Thomas Jefferson, first by examining Jefferson's steady dedication to the cause of religious liberty, and second, by exploring Jefferson's private effort to reform the nature of religion. --From publisher's description.