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LEADER: 03672cam a2200685 a 4500
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050 00 $aBR515$b.F43 2011
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aFea, John.
245 10 $aWas America founded as a Christian nation? :$ba historical introduction /$cJohn Fea.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aLouisville, Ky. :$bWestminster John Knox Press,$c©2011.
300 $axxvii, 287 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-273) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: how to think historically -- pt. 1. The United States is a Christian nation : the history of idea -- Evangelical America, 1789-1865 -- Evangelicals, liberals, and Christian America, 1865-1925 -- Christian America in a modern age, 1925-1980 -- History for the faithful : the contemporary defenders of Christian America -- pt. 2. Was the American Revolution a Christian event? -- Were the British colonies Christian societies? -- Christianity and the coming of the American Revolution -- The Revolutionary pulpit -- Nature's God : is the Declaration of Independence a Christian document? -- Religion in the critical period -- A "godless constitution"? -- pt. 3. The religious beliefs of the founders -- Did George Washington pray at Valley Forge? -- John Adams : devout Unitarian -- Thomas Jefferson : follower of Jesus -- Benjamin Franklin : ambitious moralist -- What about Witherspoon? : three Orthodox founders.
520 $aExplores the question of whether America was founded as a Christian nation, discussing what it means to think historically, examining the history of the idea that the United States is a Christian nation, exploring the relationship between Christianity and the coming of the American Revolution, and investigating the specific religious beliefs of the founders.
586 $aGeorge Washington Prize finalist, 2012
590 $bArchive
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