The Founders' Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Founders' Bible write by David Barton. This book was released on 2012. The Founders' Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers write by Daniel L. Dreisbach. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Shedding new light on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Daniel Dreisbach analyzes the founders' diverse use of scripture, ranging from the literary to the theological. He shows that they looked to the Bible for insights on human nature, civic virtue, political authority, and the rights and duties of citizens, as well as for political and legal models to emulate. They quoted scripture to authorize civil resistance, to invoke divine blessings for righteous nations, and to provide the language of liberty that would be appropriated by patriotic Americans. Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers broaches the perennial question of whether the American founding was, to some extent, informed by religious--specifically Christian--ideas. In the sense that the founding generation were members of a biblically literate society that placed the Bible at the center of culture and discourse, the answer to that question is clearly "yes." Ignoring the Bible's influence on the founders, Dreisbach warns, produces a distorted image of the American political experiment, and of the concept of self-government on which America is built.
The Founders and the Bible
The Founders and the Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Founders and the Bible write by Carl J. Richard. This book was released on 2016-03-25. The Founders and the Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those who argue that they were Christians founding a Christian nation against those who see them as Deists or modern secularists. Richard argues that it is impossible to understand the Founders without understanding the Biblically infused society that produced them. They were steeped in a biblical culture that pervaded their schools, homes, churches, and society. To show the fundamental role of religious beliefs during the Founding and early years of the republic, Richard carefully reconstructs the beliefs of 30 Founders; their lifelong engagements with Scripture; their biblically-infused political rhetoric; their powerful beliefs in a divine Providence that protected them and guided the young nation; their beliefs in the superiority of Christian ethics and in the necessity of religion to republican government; their beliefs in spiritual equality, free will, and the afterlife; their religious differences; the influence of their biblical conception of human nature on their formulation of state and federal constitutions; and their use of biblical precedent to advance religious freedom.
The Founders' Bible NASB Hardcover Second Edition
The Founders' Bible NASB Hardcover Second Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Founders' Bible NASB Hardcover Second Edition write by David Barton. This book was released on 2017-01-25. The Founders' Bible NASB Hardcover Second Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Founding Myth
The Founding Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Founding Myth write by Andrew L. Seidel. This book was released on 2021-10-12. The Founding Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Was America founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? In the paperback edition of this critically acclaimed book, a constitutional attorney settles the debate about religion's role in America's founding. In today's contentious political climate, understanding religion's role in American government is more important than ever. Christian nationalists assert that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and advocate an agenda based on this popular historical claim. But is this belief true? The Founding Myth answers the question once and for all. Andrew L. Seidel builds his case by comparing the Ten Commandments to the Constitution and contrasting biblical doctrine with America's founding philosophy, showing that the Declaration of Independence contradicts the Bible. Thoroughly researched, this persuasively argued and fascinating book proves that America was not built on the Bible and that Christian nationalism is un-American. Includes a new epilogue reflecting on the role Christian nationalism played in fomenting the January 6, 2021, insurrection in DC and the warnings the nation missed.
