Author: Samuel KnoxPublisher:
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Languages : en
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A Vindication of the Religion of Mr. Jefferson
Author: Samuel KnoxThe Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Author: Merrill D. PetersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute, shepherded it through a decade-long struggle to adoption, and included it in his epitaph (along with the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the University of Virginia). The Statute's history reflects two key revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience; and the separation of church and state. Both principles remain lively topics of debate on the contemporary religious and political scene. Papers collected here were presented at a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Among the contributors are several of America's most prominent religious and political historians and experts on jurisprudence.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
Containing his Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, parliamentary manual, official papers, messages and addresses, and other writings, official and private, now collected and published in their entirety for the first time, including all of the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of state and published in 1853 by order of the joint committee of Congress; with numerous illustrations and a comprehensive analytical index.
The Jefferson Lies
Author: David BartonPublisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1595554599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Noted historian Barton sets the record straight on the lies and misunderstandings that have tarnished the legacy of Thomas Jefferson.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia; With the Appendixes ... To which is Subjoined a Sublime and Argumentative Dissertation on Mr. Jefferson's Religious Principles Entitled: A Vindication of the Religion of Mr. Jefferson and a Statement of His Services in the Cause of Religious Liberty. By a Friend to Real Religion
Author: Thomas JeffersonCatalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Skepticism and American Faith
Author: Christopher GrassoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190494387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the dialogue of religious skepticism and faith shaped struggles over the place of religion in politics. It produced different visions of knowledge and education in an "enlightened" society. It fueled social reform in an era of economic transformation, territorial expansion, and social change. Ultimately, as Christopher Grasso argues in this definitive work, it molded the making and eventual unmaking of American nationalism. Religious skepticism has been rendered nearly invisible in American religious history, which often stresses the evangelicalism of the era or the "secularization" said to be happening behind people's backs, or assumes that skepticism was for intellectuals and ordinary people who stayed away from church were merely indifferent. Certainly the efforts of vocal "infidels" or "freethinkers" were dwarfed by the legions conducting religious revivals, creating missions and moral reform societies, distributing Bibles and Christian tracts, and building churches across the land. Even if few Americans publicly challenged Christian truth claims, many more quietly doubted, and religious skepticism touched--and in some cases transformed--many individual lives. Commentators considered religious doubt to be a persistent problem, because they believed that skeptical challenges to the grounds of faith--the Bible, the church, and personal experience--threatened the foundations of American society. Skepticism and American Faith examines the ways that Americans--ministers, merchants, and mystics; physicians, schoolteachers, and feminists; self-help writers, slaveholders, shoemakers, and soldiers--wrestled with faith and doubt as they lived their daily lives and tried to make sense of their world.
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Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1620
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