Did America Have a Christian Founding..., Mark David Hall
Did America Have a Christian Founding..., Mark David Hall
List: $21.99 | Sale: $15.39
Club: $10.99

Did America Have a Christian Founding?
Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth

Author: Mark David Hall

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 10/29/2019


Synopsis

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.In 2010, David Mark Hall gave a lecture at the Heritage Foundation entitled "Did America Have a Christian Founding?" His balanced and thoughtful approach to this controversial question caused a sensation. C-SPAN televised his talk, and an essay based on it has been downloaded more than 300,000 times.In this book, Hall expands upon this essay, making the airtight case that America's Founders were not deists. He explains why and how the Founders' views are absolutely relevant today, showingthat they did not create a "godless" Constitution;that even Jefferson and Madison did not want a high wall separating church and state;that most Founders believed the government should encourage Christianity; andthat they embraced a robust understanding of religious liberty for biblical and theological reasons.This compelling and utterly persuasive book will convince skeptics and equip believers and conservatives to defend the idea that Christian thought was crucial to the nation's founding--and that this benefits all of us, whatever our faith (or lack of faith).

About Mark David Hall

Mark David Hall is the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. He is also associated faculty at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and senior fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. He has written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books on religion and politics in America and is a nationally recognized expert on the religious freedom. He writes for the online publications Law & Liberty and Intercollegiate Studies Review and has appeared regularly on a number of radio shows, including Jerry Newcomb's Truth in Action, Tim Wildman's Today's Issues, and the Janet Mefferd Show.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Douglas

The title asks the question, and the book answers it in the affirmative. The answer is definitive. Great book.......more

Goodreads review by Ben

For me, the issue was settled back in 1975 when I first started reading about the Calvinistic influence on American history. There was a history professor at our local community college who was the most scholarly teacher on staff and a thorough-going Calvinist. A friend told me to take his class bec......more

Goodreads review by Ben

With Did America Have a Christian Founding?, Mark David Hall has written a book that is as useful as it should be unnecessary. To anyone approaching the American founding (apologies to Russell Kirk) without ideological blinders, the religious faith of the founding generation is patently obvious. Thi......more