Author: Samuel HopkinsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Puritans, Or the Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the Reigns of Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth
Author: Samuel HopkinsThe Puritans: Or, the Church, Court, and Parliament of England During the Reigns of Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth
Author: Samuel HOPKINS (of Northampton, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Puritans
Author: Samuel HopkinsPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Puritans, Or the Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the Reigns of Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth
Author: Samuel HopkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Puritans: Or, the Church, Court, and Parliament of England During the Reigns of Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth
Author: Samuel HOPKINS (of Northampton, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library of VictoriaPublisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress: Aargau to Lichfield
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
The New Englander
Author: Bibliotheca Americana, 1886
Author: Robert Clarke & CoPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America
Author: Frank LambertPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400825539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency. Lambert recognizes that two sets of spiritual fathers defined the place of religion in early America: what Lambert calls the Planting Fathers, who brought Old World ideas and dreams of building a "City upon a Hill," and the Founding Fathers, who determined the constitutional arrangement of religion in the new republic. While the former proselytized the "one true faith," the latter emphasized religious freedom over religious purity. Lambert locates this shift in the mid-eighteenth century. In the wake of evangelical revival, immigration by new dissenters, and population expansion, there emerged a marketplace of religion characterized by sectarian competition, pluralism, and widened choice. During the American Revolution, dissenters found sympathetic lawmakers who favored separating church and state, and the free marketplace of religion gained legal status as the Founders began the daunting task of uniting thirteen disparate colonies. To avoid discord in an increasingly pluralistic and contentious society, the Founders left the religious arena free of government intervention save for the guarantee of free exercise for all. Religious people and groups were also free to seek political influence, ensuring that religion's place in America would always be a contested one, but never a state-regulated one. An engaging and highly readable account of early American history, this book shows how religious freedom came to be recognized not merely as toleration of dissent but as a natural right to be enjoyed by all Americans.