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Nature's God : the heretical origins of the American republic Matthew Stewart
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks BR 520 .S836 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stewart, Matthew, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Founding Fathers of the United States--Views on religion.
- Founding Fathers of the United States.
- Religion and state--United States--History--18th century.
- Religion and state.
- Natural theology--Early works to 1800.
- Natural theology.
- United States--Religion--To 1800.
- United States.
- Church and state--United States.
- Church and state.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 566 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
- Summary:
- Discusses how America's revolutionaries--including Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine and Ethan Allen--were inspired by ideas that were ancient and pagan in nature, including the work of Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius and Dutch heretic Benedict de Spinoza.
- Contents:
- The dirty little screw of the American Revolution
- Pathologies of freedom
- Epicurus's dangerous idea
- On the genealogy of nature's god
- Self-evident truths
- The pursuit of happiness
- The empire of reason
- The religion of freedom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393064544
- 0393064549
- 9780393351293
- 0393351297
- OCLC:
- 879642283
- Publisher Number:
- 40023801665
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