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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Fea |
| ISBN: | 9780664235048 0664235042 |
| OCLC Number: | 657223892 |
| Description: | xxvii, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: how to think historically -- The search for a usable past -- What do historians do? -- pt. I. The United States is a Christian nation: the history of an idea -- 1. Evangelical America, 1789-1865 -- Christian nationalism in the early republic -- The election of 1800 -- Whig Christian nationalism -- A Christian nation in print -- Christian nationalism in the Civil War North -- Christian nationalism and the Confederate States of America -- 2. Evangelicals, liberals, and Christian America, 1865-1925 -- A Christian amendment to the Constitution -- An evangelical alliance: 1873 -- Fundamentalism and Christian civilization -- Liberal Protestantism and Christian America -- The Supreme Court and the Church of the Holy Trinity Case -- 3. Christian America in a modern age, 1925-1980 -- The persistence of the evangelical pursuit of a Christian nation -- Mainline Protestantism and Christian America -- Catholic resurgence -- The revival of Christian America: the 1950s -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for a Christian nation -- The religious right and Christian nationalism -- 4. History for the faithful: the contemporary defenders of Christian America -- Providence -- Christian Whig history -- The founders and Christian belief -- Religion and the Constitution -- Revisionism -- pt. II. Was the American Revolution a Christian event? -- 5. Were the British colonies Christian societies? -- "Planting" versus "founding" -- Jamestown -- Massachusetts Bay -- 6. Christianity and the coming of the American Revolution -- A snapshot of the British-American colonies in 1763 -- The Stamp Act crisis: 1765 -- The Townshend duties -- The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party -- The Coercive Acts -- The First Continental Congress -- 7. The Revolutionary pulpit -- Whig sermons -- A biblical argument for revolution -- Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2 -- The Revolution as a just war -- 8. Nature's God: is the Declaration of Independence a Christian document? -- Religion and the Continental Congress -- The Declaration of Independence and "original intent" -- God and the Declaration of Independence -- 9. Religion in the critical period -- Religion and the Articles of Confederation -- Virginia and the quest for religious liberty -- Massachusetts and religious establishment -- Other states -- 10. A "Godless constitution"? -- The "need" for a constitution -- Religion and the Constitution -- Slavery and the Constitution -- God and the ratification debate -- Religion and the states: the "Federalist" interpretation of the Constitution -- Religion and the First Amendment -- A wall of separation between Church and State? -- pt. III. The religious beliefs of the founders -- 11. Did George Washington pray at Valley Forge? -- Providence -- Church involvement -- Washington's beliefs -- Washington's faith in practice -- Communion -- Morality, ethics, and public religion -- Religious freedom -- 12. John Adams: devout Unitarian -- Adams and Christian orthodoxy -- Clergy, Catholics, and Calvinists -- Religion, America, and the public good -- 13. Thomas Jefferson: follower of Jesus -- The Intelligent Creator -- Follower of Jesus -- Jefferson and his bibles -- Religious freedom -- The dilemma of slavery -- 14. Benjamin Franklin: ambitious moralist -- A Puritan childhood -- Was Franklin a Deist? -- A religion of virtue -- Franklin's failures -- The religion of the American dream -- 15. What about Witherspoon? Three Orthodox founders -- John Witherspoon: Presbyterian patriot -- John Jay: Christian providentialist -- Samuel Adams: Puritan republican. |
| Responsibility: | John Fea. |
Abstract:
Fea offers an evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend.
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