Download or read book The Faiths of the Founding Fathers written by David L. Holmes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account of the religious culture of the late colonial era, surveying the religious groups in each colony. In particular, he sheds light on the various forms of Deism that flourished in America, highlighting the profound influence this intellectual movement had on the founding generation. Holmes then examines the individual beliefs of a variety of men and women who loom large in our national history. He finds that some, like Martha Washington, Samuel Adams, John Jay, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson's daughters, held orthodox Christian views. But many of the most influential figures, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Jefferson, James and Dolley Madison, and James Monroe, were believers of a different stripe. Respectful of Christianity, they admired the ethics of Jesus, and believed that religion could play a beneficial role in society. But they tended to deny the divinity of Christ, and a few seem to have been agnostic about the very existence of God. Although the founding fathers were religious men, Holmes shows that it was a faith quite unlike the Christianity of today's evangelicals. Holmes concludes by examining the role of religion in the lives of the presidents since World War II and by reflecting on the evangelical resurgence that helped fuel the reelection of George W. Bush. An intriguing look at a neglected aspect of our history, the book will appeal to American history buffs as well as to anyone concerned about the role of religion in American culture.
Download or read book A Forgotten Christian Deist written by Jan van den Berg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a cultural and intellectual biography of a neglected but important figure, Thomas Morgan (1671/2–1743). Educated at Bridgewater Academy, he was active as Presbyterian preacher, medical practitioner, and one of the first who called himself a Christian Deist. Morgan was not only a harbinger of the disparagement of the Old Testament, but also a prolific pamphleteer about things religious, and a publisher of medical books. He received praise for his medical work, but a negative press for his theological visions, and he ended as a forgotten figure in history; this book restores an overlooked writer to his due place in history. It is the first modern biography of Morgan and its readership comprises historians of deism, the enlightenment, the eighteenth century, theology and the church, Presbyterianism, and medical history.
Download or read book Letters of Thomas Jefferson written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a letter, 1789 Dec. 19, Cumberland, Jefferson requests an unidentified correspondent to convey an enclosed letter [not present] to Paris [1 l. holograph signed 25 cm.] -- In a third person letter, 1821 Jan. 15, Monticello, to Horace H. Hayden Jefferson sends thanks for some geological essays [1 l. holograph 25 cm. mounted].
Download or read book A Short and Easy Method with the Deists written by Charles Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spirituality of the English and American Deists written by Joseph Waligore and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English and American deists rejected Christianity, which they believed portrayed God as cruel. In The Spirituality of the English and American Deists, Waligore shows how the deists were the first group of modern thinkers who were spiritual but not religious.
Download or read book A Short and Easy Method with the Deists Wherein the Certainty of the Christian Religion is Demonstrated In a Letter to a Friend written by Charles Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jefferson Bible written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferson regarded Jesus as a moral guide rather than a divinity. In his unique interpretation of the Bible, he highlights Christ's ethical teachings, discarding the scriptures' supernatural elements, to reflect the deist view of religion.
Download or read book Did America Have a Christian Founding written by Mark David Hall and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions. In 2010, David Mark Hall gave a lecture at the Heritage Foundation entitled "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" His balanced and thoughtful approach to this controversial question caused a sensation. C-SPAN televised his talk, and an essay based on it has been downloaded more than 300,000 times. In this book, Hall expands upon this essay, making the airtight case that America's Founders were not deists. He explains why and how the Founders' views are absolutely relevant today, showing that they did not create a "godless" Constitution; that even Jefferson and Madison did not want a high wall separating church and state; that most Founders believed the government should encourage Christianity; and that they embraced a robust understanding of religious liberty for biblical and theological reasons. This compelling and utterly persuasive book will convince skeptics and equip believers and conservatives to defend the idea that Christian thought was crucial to the nation's founding--and that this benefits all of us, whatever our faith (or lack of faith).
Download or read book The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Locke written by Sterling Power Lamprecht and published by Archives of Philosophy, 11. This book was released on 1918 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the moral and political philosophies of John Locke in comparison with his predecessors and contemporaries such as Hobbes and Filman.
Download or read book Philosophy and Psychology Pamphlets written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Short and Easy Method with the Deists Wherein the Certainty of the Christian Religion is Demonstrated by Infallible Proof in a Letter to a Friend With a Letter from the Author to a Deist Upon His Conversion by Reading His Book written by Charles Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deist s Manual Or a Rational Enquiry Into the Christian Religion With Some Considerations on Mr Hobbs Spinosa the Oracles of Reason Second Thoughts Etc With a Letter from the Author of the Method with the Deists i e C Leslie written by Charles GILDON and published by . This book was released on 1705 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short and Easy Method with the Deists A new edition with alterations and corrections and an introductory essay by David Russell etc written by Charles LESLIE (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shapers of English Calvinism 1660 1714 written by Dewey D. Wallace Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dewey Wallace tells the story of several prominent English Calvinist actors and thinkers in the first generations after the beginning of the Restoration. He seeks to overturn conventional clichés about Calvinism: that it was anti-mystical, that it allowed no scope for the ''ancient theology'' that characterized much of Renaissance learning, that its piety was harshly predestinarian, that it was uninterested in natural theology, and that it had been purged from the established church by the end of the seventeenth century. In the midst of conflicts between Church and Dissent and the intellectual challenges of the dawning age of Enlightenment, Calvinist individuals and groups dealt with deism, anti-Trinitarianism, and scoffing atheism--usually understood as godlessness--by choosing different emphases in their defense and promotion of Calvinist piety and theology. Wallace shows that in each case, there was not only persistence in an earlier Calvinist trajectory, but also a transformation of the Calvinist heritage into a new mode of thinking and acting. The different paths taken illustrate the rich variety of English Calvinism in the period. This study presents description and analysis of the mystical Calvinism of Peter Sterry, the hermeticist Calvinism of Theophilus Gale, the evangelical Calvinism of Joseph Alleine and the circle that promoted his legacy, the natural theology of the moderate Calvinist Presbyterians Richard Baxter, William Bates, and John Howe, and the Church of England Calvinism of John Edwards. Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714 illuminates the religious and intellectual history of the era between the Reformation and modernity, offering fascinating insight into the development of Calvinism and also into English Puritanism as it transitioned into Dissent.
Download or read book Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers 1704 1750 written by Elizabeth Christine Cook and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface: The following study aims to give a fairly comprehensive survey of the literary contributions in colonial newspapers from 1704 to 1750. Aside from the well-known essays of Benjamin Franklin in The New England Courant and in The Pennsylvania Gazette, the literary material in the colonial weeklies has been hitherto neglected. Especially is this true of the Southern papers. Quotations of some length from the essays and verse published in colonial journals have therefore been considered advisable in the present work. In most instances the originals of these extracts are accessible only in the collections of Historical Societies, or in the files of some especially favored library. The student who wishes to examine The South Carolina Gazette, for example, must go to the Charleston Library Society for the only file known to be extant. All quotations in the present volume follow literally the punctuation, spelling, and capitalization of the originals, no matter how inconsistent these may seem to the modern reader. The only exceptions to this rule are a few corrections of obvious printers' errors, the retention of which would add needless confusion.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
