Founding Sins

Founding Sins

How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution

Moore, Joseph S. (Assistant Professor of History, Gardner-Webb University)

Oxford University Press Inc

12/2015

232

Dura

Inglês

9780190269241

15 a 20 dias

In Founding Sins, Joseph Moore examines the forgotten history of the Covenanters, America's first Christian nationalists. He explores how they profoundly shaped American's understandings of the separation of church and state and set the acceptable limits for religion in politics for generations to come.
Introduction ; Chapter One: Presbyterian Empire ; Chapter Two: The Failure to Found a Christian Nation ; Chapter Three: Confronting the Godless Government ; Chapter Four: Slavery and the Sin of Secular America ; Chapter Five: Rejecting a Christian Nation ; Afterward: Holy Scotland in the Contemporary Christian America Debate
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