The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really BelievedThroughout our nation's history, the religious beliefs of America's founders have been contested and misunderstood. Did our founders advocate Christianity or atheism? In The Faiths of Our Fathers, widely acclaimed historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr. cuts through the historical uncertainty to accurately portray the religious beliefs of eleven of America's founding fathers, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. He discovers men with religious beliefs as diverse as their political opinions. These profiles shed light on not only the lives and times of the revolutionary generation but also the role of religion in public life throughout American history. |
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Nutzerbericht - dragonasbreath - LibraryThingAll of our Founding Fathers were Christians, and they built this country on Christian principals. Everybody knows this... but everybody knows George Washington chopped down the Cherry Tree as well, don't they? It will give you something to think about. Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Nutzerbericht - smithwil - LibraryThingI picked up this book as an impulse buy Noble from the “Books for Grads” table as I was checking out of Barnes & Noble last month. The fact that Mapp has done the research from original writings for ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed Alf Johnson Mapp Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2003 |
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Seite 173 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
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| Titel | The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed, Alf Johnson Mapp (Jr.) |
| Autor/in | Alf J. Mapp |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0742531155, 9780742531154 |
| Länge | 183 Seiten |
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