The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, (Hardcover)

from vpfluke

I found this a fascinating book. David Holmes has done quite well disentangling the religious stances of the founding fathers of the United States. There are many today who believe that all of them wre firm Christians, while another group tends to see most of them as pure deists. The reality is q...

from vpfluke

I found this a fascinating book. David Holmes has done quite well disentangling the religious stances of the founding fathers of the United States. There are many today who believe that all of them wre firm Christians, while another group tends to see most of them as pure deists. The reality is q...

from JeffChadwell

I thought it was a great book. I've known since high school that many of our Founding Fathers considered themselves Deists, but I never really knew what that meant. This book gave me a much better idea of what Deists believe and showed how this belief system influenced the birth of our nation.

from nyambol

Good, well-researched account of a selected number of important figures of the period and how they related both to church and to religion. Makes judgements based on the known behaviors, letters and speeches as well as on comments by contemporaries. Very little free-lancing or speculating. Trails ...

from Cheryl.Russell

A balanced view of the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers.