Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in AmericaThe culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state throughout the land. None of these claims are true, argues Beliefnet.com editor in chief Steven Waldman. With refreshing objectivity, Waldman narrates the real story of how our nation’s Founders forged a new approach to religious liberty, a revolutionary formula that promoted faith . . . by leaving it alone. |
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... Puritan New Ager . The Evangelical Revolution A cross~eyed preacher finals the drive for independence and religious freedom . ]ohn Adams The angry Unitarian . The Godly Roots of Rebellion Fear ofAnglicans and Catholics helps cause the ...
... Puritan New Ager 3. The Evangelical Revolution 27 A cross - eyed preacher fuels the drive for independence and religious freedom 4. John Adams 33 The angry Unitarian 5. The Godly Roots of Rebellion 40 Fear of Anglicans and Catholics ...
... Puritan theology of his youth and the reason - based Enlightenment philosophy of his adulthood , thereby bridging the generation of the early eighteenth century and that of the Revolutionary period . George Washington's importance began ...
... Puritans into change ; Isaac Backus and John Leland , who rode hundreds of miles on horseback to spread their vision of religious liberty and provided Madison and Jefferson with their political shock troops ; and , most paradoxically ...
... Puritan clergy were banished ; and Jews were kept out entirely for two generations . " As the economy developed and ... Puritans believed that despite Henry VIII's split with Rome , the Church of England had retained too many vestiges ...
Contents
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John Adams | 33 |
George Washington | 56 |
The pious infidel | 72 |
Natures God Meets the Supreme Judge | 86 |
James Madison | 93 |
A Diabolical Persecution | 100 |
The Mighty Current of Freedom | 107 |
Forgetting the Powerful Friend | 127 |
The First Amendment Compromise | 141 |
They Were Right | 188 |
Index | 209 |
207 | 243 |