Founders and the Bible

Informationen zum Autor Carl J. Richard is the author of several Rowman & Littlefield books including The Battle for the American Mind: A Brief History of a Nation’s Thought (2006), Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers (2008), Why We’re All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western World (2010), and The Founders and the Bible (2016). He is professor of history at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Klappentext The religious beliefs of America's founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers' relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those who argue that they were Christians founding a Christian nation against those who see them as Deists or modern secularists. Richard argues that it is impossible to understand the Founders without understanding the Biblically infused society that produced them. They were steeped in a biblical culture that pervaded their schools, homes, churches, and society. To show the fundamental role of religious beliefs during the Founding and early years of the republic, Richard carefully reconstructs the beliefs of 30 Founders; their lifelong engagements with Scripture; their biblically-infused political rhetoric; their powerful beliefs in a divine Providence that protected them and guided the young nation; their beliefs in the superiority of Christian ethics and in the necessity of religion to republican government; their beliefs in spiritual equality, free will, and the afterlife; their religious differences; the influence of their biblical conception of human nature on their formulation of state and federal constitutions; and their use of biblical precedent to advance religious freedom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Chapter 1: A People of the Book Chapter 2: A Lifelong Passion Chapter 3: Heroes and Villains Chapter 4: Divine Intervention Chapter 5: The New Israel Chapter 6: Religion, Morality, and Republicanism Chapter 7: Other Shared Beliefs Chapter 8: Differences Chapter 9: Human Nature and Balanced Government Chapter 10: Church and State Epilogue Notes Index About the Author ...

Product details

• Authors: Carl J Richard, Carl J. Richard, Richard Carl J.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780810896284
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-9628-4
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Religion / Christian Church / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, Politics & government, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Christian institutions & organizations, History of the Americas, Religious institutions and organizations, C 1700 To C 1800