كتاب
Was America founded as a Christian nation?: a historical introduction
| العنوان: | Was America founded as a Christian nation?: a historical introduction |
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| المؤلفون: | Fea, John. |
| بيانات النشر: | Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, c2011. 1st ed. |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| وصف مادي: | xxvii, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Christianity and politics -- United States -- History. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | United States -- Church history. |
| الوصف: | Explores 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. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Introduction: how to think historically -- 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 -- 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"? -- 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. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn657223892 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-664-23504-8 0-664-23504-2 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-273) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012763114.3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780664235048 0664235042 |
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