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

Catalog Data

Author:
Dreisbach, Daniel L  Search this
Hall, Mark David 1966-  Search this
Morrison, Jeffry H. 1961-  Search this
Physical description:
xxi, 316 p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2009
C2009
18th century
To 1800
Contents:
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
Topic:
Founding Fathers of the United States--Views on religion  Search this
Religion and politics--History  Search this
Church and state--History  Search this
Religion  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_931178