The church-state debate currently alive in our courts and legislatures is strikingly similar to that of the 1830s. A secular drift in American culture and the role of religion in a pluralistic society were concerns that dominated the controversy then, as now. In Religion and Politics in the Early Republic, Daniel L. Dreisbach compellingly argues that the issues in our current debate were framed in earlier centuries by documents crucial to an understanding of church-state relations, the First Amendment, and our present concern with the constitutional role of religion in American...
The church-state debate currently alive in our courts and legislatures is strikingly similar to that of the 1830s. A secular drift in American cult...
No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's -wall of separation between church and state, - and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate. Introduced in an 1802 letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Association, Jefferson's -wall- is accepted by many Americans as a concise description of the U.S. Constitution's church-state arrangement and conceived as a virtual rule of constitutional law.
Despite the enormous influence of the -wall- metaphor, almost no scholarship has investigated...
No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's -wall of separat...
No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's -wall of separation between church and state, - and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate. Introduced in an 1802 letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Association, Jefferson's -wall- is accepted by many Americans as a concise description of the U.S. Constitution's church-state arrangement and conceived as a virtual rule of constitutional law.
Despite the enormous influence of the -wall- metaphor, almost no scholarship has investigated...
No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's -wall of separat...
The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the views of a few famous founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Thomas Paine, as evidence that the founders were deists who advocated the strict separation of church and state. Popular Christian polemicists, on the other hand, have attempted to show that virtually all of the founders were pious Christians in favor of public support for religion. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, a diverse array of religious traditions informed...
The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the views of a few famous founde...
The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the views of a few famous founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Thomas Paine, as evidence that the founders were deists who advocated the strict separation of church and state. Popular Christian polemicists, on the other hand, have attempted to show that virtually all of the founders were pious Christians in favor of public support for religion. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, a diverse array of religious traditions informed...
The role of religion in the founding of America has long been a hotly debated question. Some historians have regarded the views of a few famous founde...
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Shedding new light on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Daniel Dreisbach analyzes the founders' diverse use of scripture, ranging from the literary to the theological. He shows that they looked to the Bible for insights on human nature, civic virtue, political authority,...
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the poli...
