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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458226603321

Titolo

The forgotten founders on religion and public life [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, and Jeffry H. Morrison ; foreword by Mark A. Noll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009

ISBN

0-268-07767-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DreisbachDaniel L

HallMark David <1966->

MorrisonJeffry H. <1961->

Disciplina

322/.1097309033

Soggetti

Founding Fathers of the United States - Views on religion

Religion and politics - United States - History - 18th century

Church and state - United States - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

United States Religion To 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-303) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Famous founders and forgotten founders : what's the difference, and does the difference matter? / Daniel L. Dreisbach -- The way of duty : Abigail Adams and religion / Edith B. Gelles -- Samuel Adams : America's Puritan revolutionary / Gary Scott Smith -- Oliver Ellsworth's Calvinist vision of church and state in the early republic / William R. Casto -- Alexander Hamilton, theistic rationalist / Gregg L. Frazer -- Patrick Henry, religious liberty, and the search for civic virtue / Thomas E. Buckley -- John Jay and the "great plan of Providence" / Jonathan Den Hartog -- Thomas Paine's civil religion of reason / David J. Voelker -- Anglican moderation : religion and the political thought of Edmund Randolph / Kevin R. Hardwick -- Benjamin Rush and revolutionary Christian reform / Robert H. Abzug -- Roger Sherman : an old Puritan in a new nation / Mark David Hall -- Mercy Otis Warren on church and state / Rosemarie Zagarri.