The religious beliefs of America's founders
Subtitle: reason, revelation, and revolution
By: Gregg L. Frazer
Series: American political thought; American political thought
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kansas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780700620210
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Founding Fathers of the United States; Religious life; Religion and politics; History; Religion; Theism; Rationalism; Church history
Description: "Were America's Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state should be. Now the author puts their arguments to rest in the first comprehensive analysis of the Founders' beliefs as they themselves expressed them, showing that today's political right and left are both wrong."--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theistic rationalism introduced; title: "Divine" sources of theistic rationalism; title: Theistic rationalism in the revolutionary pulpit; title: The theistic rationalism of John Adams; title: The theistic rationalism of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin; title: The theistic rationalism of the key framers; title: The theistic rationalism of George Washington; title: The significance of theistic rationalism.