Hutson The Founders on Religion

A Book of Quotations
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2670-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutson, James H.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hutson, James H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Nachschlagewerke: Zitate, geflügelte Worte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Founding Generation Members Quoted in This Volume xxi

A Note on the Texts xxv

The Quotations

Addiction 1

Afterlife 5

Age 12

America 15

American Revolution 17

Animals 19

Atheism 20

Bible: Value of 23

Bible: Accuracy of the Text 26

Bible: Exegesis of 31

Bible: Old Testament 33

Bible: Revision of 36

Calvinism 38

Catholicism 40

Catholicism: Jesuits 44

Chaplains 46

Children 48

Christianity 55

Christianity: Christian Nation 59

Church and State 60

Clergy 66

Communion 70

Conscience: see Liberty of Conscience 70

Consolation 70

Constitution of the United States 76

Creeds 79

Crime and Punishment 82

Death 84

Deism 86

Divorce 87

Ecumenicism 90

Education 94

Episcopalians 96

Faith 99

Fast and Thanksgiving Days 100

God 103

Grief 111

Hell 115

Indians: see Native Americans 116

Islam 116

Jesus 121

Jews 126

Law 132

Liberty of Conscience 134

Marriage 138

Millennium 140

Miracles 141

Missionary and Bible Societies 142

Morality 146

Native Americans 149

New England 154

Oaths 154

Patriotism 156

Paul, the Apostle 157

Persecution 158

Plato 161

The Poor 163

Prayer 163

Presbyterians 171

Proclamations: see Fast and Thanksgiving Days 172

Profanity 172

Prophecy 173

Providence 176

Quakers 183

Reason 186

Religion, Freedom of: see Liberty of Conscience 189

Religion: Propensity of Humans for 189

Religion: Social Utility of 190

Republicanism 194

Rights 196

Sabbath 198

Sin 200

Slavery 206

Trinity 215

Unitarianism 220

Universalism 221

Virgin Mary 223

War 224

Women 230

Suggestions for Further Reading 235

Über Autor(innen)

James H. Hutson is chief of the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. He has been a faculty member of the History Departments at Yale University and the College of William and Mary. His books include John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution; To Make All Laws: The Congress of the United States, 1789-1989; Religion and the Founding of the American Republic; and, most recently, Forgotten Features of the Founding: The Recovery of Religious Themes in the Early American Republic.