Resistance to tyrants, obedience to God
Subtitle: reason, religion, and republicanism at the American founding
By: edited by Dustin A. Gish and Daniel P. Klinghard
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780739182192; 9781498515467
Subjects: Politics and government; Philosophy; Church and state; Religious aspects; Founding Fathers of the United States; Republicanism; Enlightenment; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mutual influence of biblical religion and enlightenment reason at the American founding / Dustin Gish and Daniel Klinghard; title: Faiths of our modern fathers : Bacon's progressive hope and Locke's liberal christianity / Robert Faulkner; title: The radical Enlightenment's critique of the American Revolution / Jonathan Israel; title: "Nature's God" as deus sive natura : Spinoza, Jefferson, and the historical transmission of the theological-political question / Jeffrey Bernstein; title: Benjamin Franklin, virtue's ethics, and "political truth" / Carla Mulford; title: Evil counselors, corrupt traitors, and bad kings : the Hebrew Bible and political critique in revolutionary America and beyond / Eran Shalev; title: Biblical narratives and Enlightenment methodology : religion, reason, and republicanism in Jefferson's Notes on the state of Virginia / Dustin Gish and Daniel Klinghard; title: Charles Carroll, the American Revolution, and Catholic identity : constitutional discourses in revolutionary Maryland / Maura Farrelly; title: The Founding Founders' disagreements about church and state / Vincent Philip Muñoz; title: Alexander Hamilton, religion, and American conservatism / Peter McNamara; title: In the valley of the dry bones : Lincoln's biblical oratory and the coming of the Civil War / Danilo Petranovich and Matthew Holbreich; title: Enlightenment philosophy, biblical religion, and Tocqueville's new science of politics / Aristide Tessitore.