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The forgotten founders on religion and public life /

"This interdisciplinary volume brings together essays on eleven of the founders of the American republic--Abigail Adams, Samuel Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Paine, Edmund Randolph, Benjamin Rush, Roger Sherman, and Mercy Otis Warren--many of whom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dreisbach, Daniel L., Hall, Mark David, 1966-, Morrison, Jeffry H., 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.