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The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution (American Political Thought (University Press of Kansas))
Gregg L. Frazer
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Paperback. The first comprehensive analysis of the Founders' religious beliefs as they themselves expressed them. Contends that they were neither what contemporary secularists nor what contemporary Christians often wish they were that is, neither deist nor Christian." Series: American Political Thought. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; HBWF; HRAM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Were America's Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state should be. Now Gregg Frazer puts their arguments to rest in the first comprehensive analysis of the Founders' beliefs as they themselves expressed them-showing that today's political right and left are both wrong.
Going beyond church attendance or public pronouncements made for political ends, Frazer scrutinizes the Founders' candid declarations regarding religion found in their private writings. Distilling decades of research, he contends that these men were neither Christian nor deist but ... Read more
Were America's Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state should be. Now Gregg Frazer puts their arguments to rest in the first comprehensive analysis of the Founders' beliefs as they themselves expressed them-showing that today's political right and left are both wrong.
Going beyond church attendance or public pronouncements made for political ends, Frazer scrutinizes the Founders' candid declarations regarding religion found in their private writings. Distilling decades of research, he contends that these men were neither Christian nor deist but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
American Political Thought
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700620210
SKU
V9780700620210
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About Gregg L. Frazer
Gregg L. Frazer is professor of history and political studies at The Master's College in Santa Clarita, California, USA. His writing has appeared in the volumes The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life and Faith and the Founders of the American Republic.
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