The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 10 nov 2009 - 288 páginas What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... strategy, invariably focusing on Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams, and a handful of lesser luminaries, culling statements from their writings that attest to the beneficent influence of Christianity on their lives and on the.
... Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madi- son at the Library of Congress were searched, with some surprising results. These new sources offer readers a richer and livelier selection of statements about the religion of the Founders ...
... Washington rarely missed an opportunity to attend divine services and took his turn on the vestry of his parish church. During his two terms as presi- dent, Thomas Jefferson, also at one time an Episcopal vestryman, “constantly attended ...
... Washington and Patrick Henry, but most assuredly of John Adams, John Jay, John Dickinson, Benjamin Rush, and Roger Sherman. It would be a stretch—but not an impossible one—to include Jefferson in this company, at least in retirement ...
... keeping the number of Founders quoted to a small, manageable number is challenging because every quote book must include Washington, Franklin, Madison, Jefferson, and Adams, all of whose religious views tracked. Preface xv.
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