RT Book
T1 Did America have a Christian founding?: separating modern myth from historical truth
A1 Hall, Mark David 1966-
LA English
PP Nashville, TN
PB Nelson Books
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1687375844
AB The myth of the founders' deism -- The United States does not have a godless constitution -- Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the first amendment -- The founders believed civic authorities should protect, promote, and encourage religion and morality -- Christianity, religious liberty, and religious exemptions.
AB Many Americans have been taught a distorted, inaccurate account of our nation's founding, one that claims that the founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and that the country's founding political ideas developed without reference to Christianity. In this revelatory, rigorously argued new book, Mark David Hall thoroughly debunks that modern myth and shows instead that the founders' political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-210)
CN BR516
SN 1400211107
SN 9781400211104
K1 Christianity and politics : United States : History
K1 Church and state : United States : History
K1 Freedom Of Religion : United States
K1 Religion and state : United States
K1 Religion And Politics : United States
K1 Founding Fathers of the United States : Religious life
K1 United States : History : Errors, inventions, etc