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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... Philosophical Society , 1951 ) , II , 820-821 ; Rush to John Adams , July 21 , 1789 , ibid . , I , 523 . Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic in Essays , Literary , Moral and Philosophical ( 2nd ed . , Philadelphia , 1806 ) ...
... Philosophical Society , 1951 ) , II , 820-821 ; Rush to John Adams , July 21 , 1789 , ibid . , I , 523 . Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic in Essays , Literary , Moral and Philosophical ( 2nd ed . , Philadelphia , 1806 ) ...
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... philosophical than religious doctrines . 28 Franklin's formal break with Calvinistic and other varieties of strict ... philosophical thought , and asks why the God who " has made us in some degree wise , potent and good " cannot " make ...
... philosophical than religious doctrines . 28 Franklin's formal break with Calvinistic and other varieties of strict ... philosophical thought , and asks why the God who " has made us in some degree wise , potent and good " cannot " make ...
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... philosophical assumptions . Whitefield certainly had some awareness of Franklin's distinctly modern smugness on these larger philosophical issues . He even might have realized , as more critical students of physics now do , that ...
... philosophical assumptions . Whitefield certainly had some awareness of Franklin's distinctly modern smugness on these larger philosophical issues . He even might have realized , as more critical students of physics now do , that ...
Inhalt
Preface | 7 |
A Christian Revolutionary? | 24 |
Catholic Revolutionary | 55 |
Urheberrecht | |
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