LEADER 03900nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910972298503321 005 20251117092543.0 010 $a0-8139-3032-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000277009 035 $a(EBL)3444086 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756009 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11966215 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756009 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10732662 035 $a(PQKB)10071589 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444086 035 $a(OCoLC)825768813 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27454 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444086 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10627966 035 $a(BIP)41675899 035 $a(BIP)19157416 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000277009 100 $a20080317d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a"In the hands of a good providence" $ereligion in the life of George Washington /$fMary V. Thompson 210 $aCharlottesville $cUniversity of Virginia Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 251 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8139-2763-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-242) and index. 327 $aControversy : a man of many questions -- Foundations : early influences -- Church affiliation : a lifelong Anglican -- Sundays : public worship and time for reflection -- Confirmation and communion : questions about a rite and sacrament of the Church -- Prayer : private devotions -- Evidence of belief : contemporary statements -- Outward actions : charity and toleration -- Church and state : Washington's vision for America -- Conclusions: Washington's and others'. 330 $aAttempts by evangelical Christians to claim Washington and other founders as their own, and scholars' ongoing attempts to contradict these claims, are nothing new. Particularly after Washington was no longer around to refute them, legends of his Baptist baptism or secret conversion to Catholicism began to proliferate. Mount Vernon researcher Mary Thompson endeavors to get beyond the current preoccupation with whether Washington and other founders were or were not evangelical Christians to ask what place religion had in their lives. Thompson follows Washington and his family over several generations, situating her inquiry in the context of new work on the place of religion in colonial and postrevolutionary Virginia and the Chesapeake. Thompson considers Washington's active participation as a vestryman and church warden as well as a generous donor to his parish prior to the Revolution, and how his attendance declined after the war. He would attend special ceremonies, and stood as godparent to the children of family and friends, but he stopped taking communion and resigned his church office. Something had changed, but was it Washington, the church, or both? Thompson concludes that he was a devout Anglican, of a Latitudinarian bent, rather than either an evangelical Christian or a Deist. The meaning of this description, Thompson allows, when applied to eighteenth-century Virginia gentlemen, is far from self-evident, leaving ample room for speculation. 606 $aAnglicans$zVirginia$vBiography 606 $aChristianity and politics$zUnited States$xChurch of England$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aVirginia$xReligious life and customs 607 $aChesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aAnglicans 615 0$aChristianity and politics$xChurch of England$xHistory 676 $a973.4/3092 700 $aThompson$b Mary V.$f1955-$01869923 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972298503321 996 $a"In the hands of a good providence"$94478211 997 $aUNINA