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The Christian Roots of American Liberty
Description
Was the American founding an Enlightenment invention or organic development of liberty? Liberal or conservative? Secular or Christian?
American conservatives traditionally answered "both" to these questions. More recently, new movements on the Right-from national conservatives to neo-integralists to post-liberals to Christian nationalists-have challenged this conviction. Some even dismiss the founding as hopelessly secular.
Yet centuries of Christian ideas shaped the American founding, and Pahman and Pinheiro provide the sources to prove it in The Christian Roots of American Liberty. Along with select American writings, readers can examine historic Christian works that birthed the core principles of liberty. This edited collection, marking the United States' 250th anniversary, provides the resources to conserve this timeless foundation.
American conservatives traditionally answered "both" to these questions. More recently, new movements on the Right-from national conservatives to neo-integralists to post-liberals to Christian nationalists-have challenged this conviction. Some even dismiss the founding as hopelessly secular.
Yet centuries of Christian ideas shaped the American founding, and Pahman and Pinheiro provide the sources to prove it in The Christian Roots of American Liberty. Along with select American writings, readers can examine historic Christian works that birthed the core principles of liberty. This edited collection, marking the United States' 250th anniversary, provides the resources to conserve this timeless foundation.
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