Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Revised Edition: A Historical Introduction
John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetor...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Louisville
Westminster John Knox Press
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Further subjects: | B
Christianity and politics-United States-History
B Electronic books B United States-Church history |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781611646931 |
| Summary: | John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. This. Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Think Historically -- The Search for a Usable Past -- What Do Historians Do? -- Part One: The United States Is a Christian Nation: The History of an Idea -- Chapter 1: Evangelical America, 1789-1865 -- Christian Nationalism in the Early Republic -- The Election of 1800 -- Whig Christian Nationalism -- A Christian Nation in Print -- Christian Nationalism in the Civil War North -- Christian Nationalism and the Confederate States of America -- Chapter 2: Evangelicals, Liberals, and Christian America, 1865-1925 -- A Christian Amendment to the Constitution -- An Evangelical Alliance: 1873 -- Fundamentalism and Christian Civilization -- Liberal Protestantism and Christian America -- The Supreme Court and the Church of the Holy Trinity Case -- Chapter 3: Christian America in a Modern Age, 1925-1980 -- The Persistence of the Evangelical Pursuit of a Christian Nation -- Mainline Protestantism and Christian America -- Catholic Resurgence -- The Revival of Christian America: The 1950s -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vision for a Christian Nation -- The Religious Right and Christian Nationalism -- Chapter 4: History for the Faithful: The Contemporary Defenders of Christian America -- Providence -- Christian Whig History -- The Founders and Christian Belief -- Religion and the Constitution -- Revisionism -- Suggested Reading for Part One -- Part Two: Was the American Revolution a Christian Event? -- Chapter 5: Were the British Colonies Christian Societies? -- "Planting" versus "Founding" -- Jamestown -- Massachusetts Bay -- Chapter 6: Christianity and the Coming of the American Revolution -- A Snapshot of the British-American Colonies in 1763. |
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| ISBN: | 1611646936 |