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Title: Faith Of The Founders: Religion And The New Nation 1776-1826 By: Edwin S. Gaustad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 196 Vendor: Baylor University Press Publication Date: 2011 | Dimensions: 9.0 X 6.5 X 0.6 (inches) Weight: 9 ounces ISBN: 1932792090 ISBN-13: 9781932792096 Stock No: WW92090X |
In the lauded Faith of the Founders, revered historian Edwin Gaustad provides a careful consideration of the developing relationship between religion and the state after the American Revolution. With concise focus on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and John Adams, Gaustad identifies seven varyingsometimes contraryperspectives on religion that guided the nation's founders. Faith of the Founders masterfully shows how these figures possessed an intuitive understanding of religion that helped nourish a young country. Repackaged for a new generation of readers and with a new foreword by Randall Balmer, this brief but insightful book offers a look into the founding fathers' geniusand points to a way forward through the ideological boundaries that threaten to upend the daily doings of American government today.
Edwin S. Gaustad is emeritus Professor of History, University of California, Riverside. He is a noted church historian and the author of over a dozen books.
Randall Balmer is John Phillips Professor in Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books.
As clear and serene a guide to the mixture of religious and political events at the time of the nation's founding as we are likely to get.
Based on James Sprunt lectures delivered at Union Theological Seminary (Richmond), this beautifully written book shows the complexity of church-state relations in the early republic.
Historically informative and as relevant as today's headlines. The author brings to these sensitive chapters all the wisdom and sophistication and that have marked him as a premier historian of the American religious experience.
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