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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Eidsmoe |
ISBN: | 0801052319 9780801052316 |
OCLC Number: | 32655789 |
Description: | 473 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Foreword by D. James Kennedy -- Introduction -- The background. Calvinism ; Puritanism ; Deism, Freemasonry, and science ; Law and government -- Meet the founding fathers. A word of introduction ; John Witherspoon ; James Madison ; George Washington ; Alexander Hamilton ; John Jay ; Gouverneur Morris ; Benjamin Franklin ; Thomas Jefferson ; Samuel Adams ; John Adams ; Patrick Henry ; Roger Sherman ; Charles Cotesworth Pinckney ; And in summary -- The Constitution: Then and now. Back to Philadelphia: The Constitution is born ; Biblical principles found in the declaration and the Constitution ; Into the third century: Where does the United States go from here? |
Responsibility: | John Eidsmoe. |
Abstract:
Using the writings of the founders and records of their conversations and activities, John Eidsmoe demonstrates the influence of Christianity on the political convictions of the founding fathers.
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