The Spirits of '76: A Catholic InquiryChristendom Publications, 1983 - 182 Seiten Historian Donald D'Elia offers one of the most original sets of essays ever penned on the seven greatest founding fathers looking at the development of their philosophical and religious convictions. The essays include: "The Relevance of Thomas Jefferson," "Benjamin Rush: A Christian Revolutionary," "John Adams: Revolutionary as Manichaean," "Charles Carroll of Carrollton: A Catholic Revolutionary," "George Washington: The Founder as Stoic," "Alexander Hamilton: From Caesar to Christ," and "Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Religion." |
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... course the basis for this solipsism . We are all too familiar today with this ab- solutizing of private judgment , this heresy of man's first parents- " You shall be as gods . " 13 It clearly inverts the natural order , of first being ...
... course the basis for this solipsism . We are all too familiar today with this ab- solutizing of private judgment , this heresy of man's first parents- " You shall be as gods . " 13 It clearly inverts the natural order , of first being ...
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... course only as a man . Neither Foun- ding Father , so far as the evidence reveals , was a Christian ; yet , while Jefferson expressly renounced the divinity of Christ , Washington ap- pears simply to have ignored the Nazarene's claim ...
... course only as a man . Neither Foun- ding Father , so far as the evidence reveals , was a Christian ; yet , while Jefferson expressly renounced the divinity of Christ , Washington ap- pears simply to have ignored the Nazarene's claim ...
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... course , was written long before the Lisbon earthquake , which caused grave doubts in Voltaire's mind about Shaftesbury's theodicy , and the Robespierrean Reign of Terror which the French philosopher and Franklin mercifully escaped ...
... course , was written long before the Lisbon earthquake , which caused grave doubts in Voltaire's mind about Shaftesbury's theodicy , and the Robespierrean Reign of Terror which the French philosopher and Franklin mercifully escaped ...
Inhalt
Preface | 7 |
A Christian Revolutionary? | 24 |
Catholic Revolutionary | 55 |
Urheberrecht | |
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