The Founders and the Bible

Carl J. Richard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

396 Seiten

2017
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-8108-9628-4 (ISBN)

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The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those who argue that they were Christians founding a Christian nation against those who see them as Deists or modern secularists. Richard argues that it is impossible to understand the Founders without understanding the Biblically infused society that produced them. They were steeped in a biblical culture that pervaded their schools, homes, churches, and society. To show the fundamental role of religious beliefs during the Founding and early years of the republic, Richard carefully reconstructs the beliefs of 30 Founders; their lifelong engagements with Scripture; their biblically-infused political rhetoric; their powerful beliefs in a divine Providence that protected them and guided the young nation; their beliefs in the superiority of Christian ethics and in the necessity of religion to republican government; their beliefs in spiritual equality, free will, and the afterlife; their religious differences; the influence of their biblical conception of human nature on their formulation of state and federal constitutions; and their use of biblical precedent to advance religious freedom.

Carl J. Richard is the author of Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers (2008) and Why We’re All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western World (2010). He is professor of history at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: A People of the Book

Chapter 2: A Lifelong Passion

Chapter 3: Heroes and Villains

Chapter 4: Divine Intervention

Chapter 5: The New Israel

Chapter 6: Religion, Morality, and Republicanism

Chapter 7: Other Shared Beliefs

Chapter 8: Differences

Chapter 9: Human Nature and Balanced Government

Chapter 10: Church and State

Epilogue
Notes
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2018
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 231 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8108-9628-1 / 0810896281
ISBN-13	978-0-8108-9628-4 / 9780810896284
Zustand	Neuware