Download or read book Influence of the Clergy and of Religious and Sectarian Forces on the American Revolution written by Claude Halstead Van Tyne and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Influence of the Clergy and of Religious and Sectarian Forces on the American Revolution written by Claude Halstead Van Tyne and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Historical Review written by John Franklin Jameson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Download or read book Under the Cope of Heaven written by Patricia U. Bonomi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reevaluation of the role of religion in the lives of 18th century Americans.
Download or read book The New England Clergy and the American Revolution written by Alice Mary Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding written by David W. Hall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinism's insistence on human rulers' tendency to err played a significant role in the founders' prescription of limited government and fed the distinctly American philosophy in which political freedom for citizens is held as the highest value. Hall's timely work countervails many scholars' doubt in the intellectual efficacy of religion by showing that religious teachings have led to such progressive ideals as American democracy and freedom.
Download or read book Religion and Politics in the Early Republic written by Daniel Dreisbach and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church-state debate currently alive in our courts and legislatures is strikingly similar to that of the 1830s. A secular drift in American culture and the role of religion in a pluralistic society were concerns that dominated the controversy then, as now. In Religion and Politics in the Early Republic, Daniel L. Dreisbach compellingly argues that the issues in our current debate were framed in earlier centuries by documents crucial to an understanding of church-state relations, the First Amendment, and our present concern with the constitutional role of religion in American public life. Reflection on this national discussion of more than 150 years ago casts light on both past and future relations between church and state in America. In an 1833 sermon, "The Relation of Christianity to Civil Government in the United States," the Reverend Jasper Adams of Charleston, South Carolina, an eminent educator and moral philosopher, offered valuable insight into the social and political forces that shaped church-state relations in his time. Adams argued that the Christian religion is indis-pensable to social order and national prosperity. Although he opposed the establishment of a state church, he believed that a Christian ethic should inform all civil, legal, and political institutions. Adams's remarkably prescient discourse anticipated the emergence of a dominant secular culture and its inevitable conflict with the formerly ascendant religious establishment. His treatise was the first major work from the embattled religious traditionalists controverting Thomas Jefferson's vision of a secular polity and strict church-state separation. Eager to confirm his analysis, Adams sent copies of the sermon to scores of leading intellectuals and public figures of his day. In this volume, Dreisbach brings together for the first time Adams's sermon, a critical review of the treatise, and transcripts of previously unpublished letters written in response to it by James Madison, John Marshall, Joseph Story, and J.S. Richardson. These letters provide a rare glimpse into the minds of several influential statesmen and jurists who were central in shaping the republic and its institutions. The Story and Madison letters are among their authors1 final and most perceptive pronouncements on church-state relations. The documents that Dreisbach has assembled in this edition provide a vivid portrait of early nineteenth-century thought on the constitutional role of religion in public life. Our ongoing national discussion of this topic is illuminated by the debate encapsulated in these pages.
Download or read book Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia written by American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Representative Selections With Introduction Bibliograpy and Notes written by Chester E. Jorgenson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism written by Jason E. Vickers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Protestantism has been the dominant form of Christianity in United States since the colonial era and has had a profound impact on American society. Understanding this religious tradition is, thus, crucial to understanding American culture. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview of American Protestantism. It considers all its major streams—Anglican, Reformed, Lutheran, Anabaptist, Baptist, Stone-Campbell, Methodist, Holiness, and Pentecostal. Written from various disciplinary perspectives, including history, theology, liturgics, and religious studies, it explores the beliefs and practices around which American Protestant life has revolved. The volume also provides a chronological overview of the tradition's entire history, addresses its prominent theological and sociological features, and explores its numerous intersections with American culture. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, as well as an interested general audience, this Companion will be useful both for insiders and outsiders to the American Protestant tradition.
Download or read book By the Hand of Providence written by Rod Gragg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers from the crafting of the Declaration of Independence to the signing of the peace treaty with Britain, this book sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian world view motivated America's founding fathers.
Download or read book New Viewpoints in American History written by Arthur Meier Schlesinger and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Armsbearing and the Clergy in the History and Canon Law of Western Christianity written by Lawrence G. Duggan and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the vexed relationship between clergy and warfare is traced through a careful examination of canon law.
Download or read book The Hidden Balance written by John Corrigan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-07-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congregationalist ministers Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew were among the most influential social and religious thinkers in Boston in the mid-eighteenth century. This 1987 study argues that Chauncy and Mayhew produced a complex but coherent body of ideas and that these ideas were organized closely and self-consciously around the principle of 'balance'. Writings on society and government are treated alongside theological works, rather than separate from them, and each man's corpus is placed against the background of English ideas as well as within the context of intellectual and social life in Boston. Investigation of the ideas of Chauncy and Mayhew in this way leads to the conclusion that although the two men believed that a cosmic principle of 'balance' organized social and religious life, they believed as well that full philosophical comprehension of this principle was beyond human capability. In order to express their understanding of cosmic order, Chauncy and Mayhew appropriated the metaphor of the 'great chain of being'.
Download or read book Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers written by Daniel L. Dreisbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Shedding new light on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Daniel Dreisbach analyzes the founders' diverse use of scripture, ranging from the literary to the theological. He shows that they looked to the Bible for insights on human nature, civic virtue, political authority, and the rights and duties of citizens, as well as for political and legal models to emulate. They quoted scripture to authorize civil resistance, to invoke divine blessings for righteous nations, and to provide the language of liberty that would be appropriated by patriotic Americans. Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers broaches the perennial question of whether the American founding was, to some extent, informed by religious--specifically Christian--ideas. In the sense that the founding generation were members of a biblically literate society that placed the Bible at the center of culture and discourse, the answer to that question is clearly "yes." Ignoring the Bible's influence on the founders, Dreisbach warns, produces a distorted image of the American political experiment, and of the concept of self-government on which America is built.
Download or read book Anti Catholicism in America 1620 1860 written by Maura Jane Farrelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farrelly uses America's early history of anti-Catholicism to reveal contemporary American understandings of freedom, government, God, the individual, and the community.
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State written by Daniel Dreisbach and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state," and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate.
