Benjamin Franklin - Cultural Protestant

This compelling biography interprets Franklin as the embodiment of Protestant attitudes toward print culture, urban life, science, intellectual life, and politics. It shows that Franklin should be included in the company of figures like Lincoln for whom Protestant convictions informed their outlook on and contribution to the world.

List of contents

• Introduction: A Different Kind of Protestant


• 1: Growing up Puritan


• 2: Young, Restless, and Deist (Briefly)


• 3: Striving


• 4: The Way of Print


• 5: Family Man


• 6: Civic Uplift


• 7: Church Life


• 8: The Intellectual


• 9: Pennsylvania's Protestant Politics


• 10: An Empire Fit for God's Kingdom


• 11: Autobiography


• Conclusion: The American Creed


• Select Bibliography

About the author

D. G. Hart is Distinguished Associate Professor of History at Hillsdale College. His publications include American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2020), Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken (Eerdmans, 2016), and Calvinism: A History (Yale University Press, 2013).

Summary

This compelling biography interprets Franklin as the embodiment of Protestant attitudes toward print culture, urban life, science, intellectual life, and politics. It shows that Franklin should be included in the company of figures like Lincoln for whom Protestant convictions informed their outlook on and contribution to the world.

Additional text

Hart's Benjamin Franklin is a masterful work of narrative, insight, and elucidation. His style of writing is clear, informative, and a joy to read.

Product details

• Authors: D. G. Hart, D. G. (Distinguished Associate Professor of Hart, D. G. (Distinguished Associate Professor of History Hart, Hart D. G.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780198788997
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878899-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Spiritual lives
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Religion & politics, Biography: religious & spiritual, Religion and Politics, History of the Americas, Biography: religious and spiritual, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches