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Was America founded as a Christian nation? : a historical introduction / John Fea.
LIBRA BR515 .F43 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fea, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity and politics--United States--History.
- Christianity and politics.
- History.
- United States--Church history.
- United States.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, [2011]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-273) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780664235048
- 0664235042
- OCLC:
- 657223892
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