Title:
Was America founded as a Christian nation? : a historical introduction / John Fea.
Author:
Fea, John.
Publication Information:
Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2011.
Call Number:
BR515 .F43 2011
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Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780664235048
Physical Description:
xxvii, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
Introduction: how to think historically -- 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 -- 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"? -- 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.
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