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Presents information on religion in colonial America, covering topics such as early Christianity, the Protestant Reformation, Puritan Separatists, Puritanism in New England, religious diversity and tolerance, the Anglican Church, the Great Awakening, and the Rise of Evangelism. Includes a glossary and a list of additional resources.
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"Were America's Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state should be. Now the author puts their arguments to rest in the first comprehensive analysis of the Founders' beliefs as they themselves expressed them, showing that today's political right and left are both wrong."--Publisher.
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"Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart pursues a genealogy of the philosophical ideas from which America's revolutionaries drew their inspiration, all ... researched and documented and enlivened with storytelling ... Along the way, he uncovers the true meanings of 'Nature's God,' 'self-evident,' and many other phrases crucial to our understanding of the American experiment but now widely misunderstood"--Dust jacket flap....