Faith of Our (Founding) Fathers
OPS_admin | Dec 16, 2009 | Comments 0
In his excellent book, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Steven Waldman clears away myths and misconceptions to reveal the true and dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Neither conservatives nor liberals have the story straight, Waldman argues: America was not founded neither as a strictly “Christian nation,” but nor were the Founding Fathers strict secularists or Deists bent on cleaving church and state by way of the First Amendment. Rather, the architects of the nation hit upon a novel formula that promoted faith by, precisely, leaving it alone.
Among the many gifts of the book are Waldman’s descriptions of the religious development of five Founders — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Benjamin Franklin: the origins of their views, how they developed, and how they shaped each man’s particular contribution to the founding of the nation. Herewith, a quick guide to the faith of our (Founding) Fathers.
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