What Children Did Not Learn in School: The Intellectual Quickening of Young Americans in the Nineteenth Century
Thomas Jefferson belonged to a generation of common-sense rationalists who hoped that religious tolerance in the United States would put an end to religious quarreling. Once freed to practice religion as they pleased, adult citizens, Jefferson thought, would recognize the moral advantages of nondogm...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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1999
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| Στο/Στη: |
Church history
Έτος: 1999, Τόμος: 68, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 42-61 |
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| Σύνοψη: | Thomas Jefferson belonged to a generation of common-sense rationalists who hoped that religious tolerance in the United States would put an end to religious quarreling. Once freed to practice religion as they pleased, adult citizens, Jefferson thought, would recognize the moral advantages of nondogmatic creeds and treat religion as a philosophical inquiry based not on Scripture but on what was selfevidently true. Religion, a subject for mature minds who could weigh evidence, was not for infants. Young children, he said, were “at an age when their judgments are not sufficiently matured for religious enquiries.” Children had to learn to think about religion gradually and to study it with a questioning mind only after they had attained adulthood. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3170109 |