The Founders and the Bible by Carl J Richard Review
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The Founders and the Bible by Carl J. Richard
The religious beliefs of America'due south founding fathers take been a popular and contentious subject for contempo generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers' human relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those who argue that they were Christians founding a Christian nation confronting those who come across them as Deists or mod 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 civilisation that pervaded their schools, homes, churches, and society. To prove the fundamental part 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 immature nation; their beliefs in the superiority of Christian ideals and in the necessity of religion to republican authorities; their beliefs in spiritual equality, free will, and the afterlife; their religious differences; the influence of their biblical formulation of human nature on their conception of state and federal constitutions; and their use of biblical precedent to advance religious liberty.
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This is a thoroughly documented study that shows the many ways the founders of the American republic were immersed in the language, images, teachings, and general ethos of the Bible. * Interpretation: A Periodical of Bible and Theology *
One long-running sideshow of the culture wars is a squabble about the Christian orthodoxy of the Founding Fathers: believers or heretics? Illuminating the question so profoundly as to dispel it, Richard relays what and how Washington, Adams (John and Samuel), Paine, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Franklin, Jay, Hamilton, Henry, and others wrote about faith and Christianity in relation to such concepts as divine intervention, morality, republicanism, American exceptionalism, free will, biblical authority, life after death, homo nature, sin, and church-state relations. He provides quotation-filled chapters on those matters, demonstrating how thoroughly the Bible suffused colonial and early republican American culture and how detail founders, especially the least orthodoxly Christian, studied the Bible throughout their lives; none of them was atheist nor even deist-not even Paine. Even when faith wasn't the subject, when they wished to speak with maximal weight, they adopted the language of the Rex James Bible. . . . [I]t is an invaluable resource, peculiarly given its good, not overly complicated index. * Booklist *
Questions about the American founding generation'due south religion frequently intertwine with contemporary politics; those on the right overstate the founders' Evangelicalism, and those on the left overstate their secularism. Having read public and private writings of xxx leaders in the founding generation, Richard weighs in on these debates, suggesting that scholars have underestimated the Bible'south part in shaping intellectual and political life in revolutionary America. He argues that the Bible definitively framed the founders' worldviews. Richard is at his best when he shows how pervasive the Bible was in popular culture. . . . .Richard demonstrates beyond a uncertainty that the founders peppered their political rhetoric with biblical language. . . . Summing Upwards: Recommended. Full general collections and up. * CHOICE *
The Founders and the Bible is an of import addition to the existing literature on American history. Carl J. Richard conclusively establishes that American founders were neither theocratic Christians who wanted to establish a Christian Sparta, nor were they outright secularists in the 21st century sense. Information technology is a very scholarly and well-researched book. It is written in such a manner that fifty-fifty a layperson volition savor reading it. * The Washington BookReview *
"Politically inflected debates over Christianity's influence over the American Founding will e'er be with us. Simply for those who seek to empathize the past rather than exploit it for nowadays-day purposes, Carl Richard's lucid and judicious volume will prove an indispensable resource. No ane tin can come away from a reading of it without agreement that the Founders lived in a world saturated with the images, narratives, cosmology, anthropology, morality, and providential promises of the Bible, and that the views of even the most unorthodox among them had very little in common with the late-modern secular outlook." -- Wilfred Thou. McClay, University of Oklahoma
Benjamin Rush'southward insight, "men are governed just by the Bible or the bayonet," encapsulates the worldview of America's Founders. In The Founders and the Bible Carl Richard, America's premier intellectual historian, shows the Bible molding the intellectual, political and religious life of the early republic. Even Franklin, Jefferson and Tom Paine believed in a providential deity who created and sustains the earth. Richard's book is the beginning step in a much needed re-writing of American history. -- Due east. Christian Kopff, University of Colorado, Boulder
In this unmarried volume, Professor Richard provides a thorough, if not exhaustive, presentation of the bear witness showing the enormous influence of the Bible on the leading members of the Founding generation. The book will prove a valuable resources for all who study the American political enterprise. -- David Upham, Academy of Dallas
About Carl J. Richard
Carl J. Richard is the author of Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers (2008) and Why We're All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western Earth (2010). He is professor of history at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction Chapter 1: A People of the Book Chapter 2: A Lifelong Passion Chapter 3: Heroes and Villains Chapter 4: Divine Intervention Chapter v: The New State of israel Chapter half-dozen: Faith, Morality, and Republicanism Chapter 7: Other Shared Beliefs Chapter 8: Differences Chapter 9: Homo Nature and Balanced Authorities Chapter 10: Church and Land Epilogue Notes Index Most the Author
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