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Resistance to tyrants, obedience to God : reason, religion, and republicanism at the American founding

Title
Resistance to tyrants, obedience to God : reason, religion, and republicanism at the American founding / edited by Dustin Gish and Daniel Klinghard.
ISBN
9780739182192 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739182196 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739182208 (electronic)
Publication
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]
Physical Description
ix, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 31, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The mutual influence of biblical religion and enlightenment reason at the American founding / Dustin Gish and Daniel Klinghard
Faiths of our modern fathers : Bacon's progressive hope and Locke's liberal Christianity / Robert Faulkner
The radical Enlightenment's critique of the American Revolution / Jonathan Israel
"Nature's God" as deus sive natura : Spinoza, Jefferson, and the historical transmission of the theological-political question / Jeffrey A. Bernstein
Benjamin Franklin, virtue's ethics, and "political truth" / Carla Mulford
Evil counselors, corrupt traitors, and bad kings : the Hebrew Bible and political critique in revolutionary America and beyond / Eran Shalev
Biblical narratives and Enlightenment methodology : religion, reason, and republicanism in Jefferson's Notes on the state of Virginia / Dustin Gish and Daniel Klinghard
Charles Carroll, the American Revolution, and Catholic identity : constitutional discourses in revolutionary Maryland / Maura Farrelly
The Founding Founders' disagreements about church and state / Vincent Philip Muñoz
Alexander Hamilton, religion, and American conservatism / Peter McNamara
In the valley of the dry bones : Lincoln's biblical oratory and the coming of the Civil War / Danilo Petranovich and Matthew Holbreich
Enlightenment philosophy, biblical religion, and Tocqueville's new science of politics / Aristide Tessitore.
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