Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life
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This interdisciplinary volume brings together essays on eleven of the founders of the American republic—Abigail Adams, Samuel Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Paine, Edmund Randolph, Benjamin Rush, Roger Sherman, and Mercy Otis Warren—many of whom are either little recognized today or little appreciated for their contributions.

The essays focus on the thinking of these men and women on the proper role of religion in public life, including but not limited to the question of the separation of church and state. Their views represent a wide range of opinions, from complete isolation of church and state to tax-supported clergy. These essays present a textured and nuanced view of the society that came to a consensus on how religion would fit in the public life of the new nation. They reveal that religion was more important in the lives and thinking of many of the founders than is often portrayed and that it took the interplay of disparate and contrasting views to frame the constitutional outline that eventually emerged.

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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780268077679
Topic
History
Subtopic
Early American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. 1. Famous Founders and Forgotten Founders
  10. 2. The Way of Duty
  11. 3. Samuel Adams
  12. 4. Oliver Ellsworth’s Calvinist Vision of Church and State in the Early Republic
  13. 5. Alexander Hamilton, Theistic Rationalist
  14. 6. Patrick Henry, Religious Liberty, and the Search for Civic Virtue
  15. 7. John Jay and the Great Plan of Providence
  16. 8. Thomas Paine’s Civil Religion of Reason
  17. 9. Anglican Moderation
  18. 10. Benjamin Rush and Revolutionary Christian Reform
  19. 11. Roger Sherman
  20. 12. Mercy Otis Warren on Church and State
  21. For Further Reading
  22. Contributors
  23. Index