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Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (340 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780268077679
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public LifeDDC classification:
  • 322/.1097309033
LOC classification:
  • BR520 .F67 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Famous Founders and Forgotten Founders -- The Way of Duty -- Samuel Adams -- Oliver Ellsworth's Calvinist Vision of Church and State in the Early Republic -- Alexander Hamilton, Theistic Rationalist -- Patrick Henry, Religious Liberty, and the Search for Civic Virtue -- John Jay and the Great Plan of Providence -- Thomas Paine's Civil Religion of Reason -- Anglican Moderation -- Benjamin Rush and Revolutionary Christian Reform -- Roger Sherman -- Mercy Otis Warren on Church and State -- For Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: The essays in this collection focus on eleven of the founders of the American republic and their opinions and thinking about the proper role of religion in public life.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Famous Founders and Forgotten Founders -- The Way of Duty -- Samuel Adams -- Oliver Ellsworth's Calvinist Vision of Church and State in the Early Republic -- Alexander Hamilton, Theistic Rationalist -- Patrick Henry, Religious Liberty, and the Search for Civic Virtue -- John Jay and the Great Plan of Providence -- Thomas Paine's Civil Religion of Reason -- Anglican Moderation -- Benjamin Rush and Revolutionary Christian Reform -- Roger Sherman -- Mercy Otis Warren on Church and State -- For Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.

The essays in this collection focus on eleven of the founders of the American republic and their opinions and thinking about the proper role of religion in public life.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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