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Benjamin Franklin : cultural Protestant / D. G. Hart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, D. G. (Darryl G.), author.
- Series:
- Spiritual lives (Oxford University Press)
- Spiritual lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--United States--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Religion.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Growing up Puritan
- Young, restless, and Deist (briefly)
- Striving
- The way of print
- Family man
- Civic uplift
- Church life
- The intellectual
- Pennsylvania's Protestant politics - An empire fit for God's Kingdom
- Autobiography.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-109340-8
- 0-19-183099-2
- 0-19-109339-4
- OCLC:
- 1255234487
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