Was America founded as a Christian nation? : a historical introduction /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Louisville, KY :
Westminster John Knox Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: How to think historically
- Part 1. The United States is a Christian nation: the history of an idea. Evangelical America, 1789-1865
- Evangelicals, liberals, and Christian America, 1865-1925
- Christian America in a modern age, 1925-1980
- History for the faithful: the contemporary defenders of Christian America
- Part 2. Was the American revolution a Christian event? Were the British colonies Christian societies?
- Christianity and the coming of the American revolution
- The revolutionary pulpit
- Nature's God: is the declaration of independence a Christian document?
- Religion in the critical period
- A "godless constitution"?
- Part 3. The religious beliefs of the founders. Did George Washington pray at Valley Forge?
- John Adams: devout Unitarian
- Thomas Jefferson: follower of Jesus
- Benjamin Franklin: ambitious moralist
- What about Witherspoon?: three orthodox founders.