The religion of the Founding Fathers /
David L. Holmes.
- Charlottesville, Va. : Ann Arbor : Ash Lawn-Highland ; Clements Library, University of Michigan, 2003.
- 156 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-147) and index.
Religion in the American colonies in 1770: The sects -- Tolerant Pennsylvania -- The mainline churches -- The rise of evangelical Christianity -- The Anglican tradition and the Virginia founding fathers -- The enlightenment religion of Deism -- The religious views of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe -- The past is a foreign country.
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Deism--United States. Founding Fathers of the United States--Religious life.