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Title:
The founding fathers and the place of religion in America
Author:
Lambert, Frank, 1943-
ISBN:
9781400825530
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 328 pages)
Abstract:
How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency. Lambert recognizes that two sets of spiritual fathers defined the place of religion in early America: what Lambert calls the Planting Fathers, who brought Old World ideas and dreams of building a "City upon a.
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