Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction
John Fea's Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? definitely succeeds in the task it sets for itself: to bring historical scholarship to bear on the contentious and polarized debate over American national origins and in what sense (if any) the founding—itself a problematic concept, as Fea d...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 162-164 |
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| Summary: | John Fea's Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? definitely succeeds in the task it sets for itself: to bring historical scholarship to bear on the contentious and polarized debate over American national origins and in what sense (if any) the founding—itself a problematic concept, as Fea demonstrates—could be considered distinctively Christian. Fea hopes to demonstrate the historical complexity of the debate and show what balanced historical scholarship can say to a wider audience. Fea pitches the book to a general audience and takes full advantage of a conversational tone that could serve as a model for academics attempting to make difficult concepts accessible to the reading public. The book is well deserving of the recognition it has received in multiple academic venues. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css122 |