Reinventing Liberal Christianity by Hobson Theo;

Author:Hobson, Theo;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Published: 2013-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

1. Increase Mather, quoted in Steven Waldman, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America (New York: Random House, 2008), p. 9.

2. Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), p. 90.

3. Mark A. Noll, America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 44.

4. Jonathan Edwards, quoted in Michael J. McClymond and Gerald R. McDermott, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), p. 237.

5. Jonathan Edwards, quoted in Noll, America’s God, p. 45.

6. Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth, 1996), p. 69.

7. In Garry Wills, Head and Heart: American Christianities (New York: Penguin, 2007), p. 190. Hereafter, page references to this work appear in parentheses in the text.

8. James Madison, quoted in Waldman, Founding Faith, p. 120.

9. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Short, August 4, 1820, quoted in Waldman, Founding Faith, p. 79.

10. John Adams, quoted in Waldman, Founding Faith, p. 36.

11. Madison, Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822, quoted in Waldman, Founding Faith, p. 180.

12. David Sehat, The Myth of American Religious Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 5, 69.

13. Leland was perhaps the closest the Revolution had to a Milton figure: someone advocating religious liberty on primarily Christian grounds. In his tract The Rights of Conscience Inalienable (1791), he made various arguments reminiscent of Milton’s, including this: establishment “has a natural tendency to make men conclude that bible religion is nothing but a trick of state: hence it is that the greatest part of the well informed in literature are over-run with deism and infidelity” (quoted in Matthew L. Harris and Thomas S. Kidd, eds., The Founding Fathers and the Debate Over Religion in Revolutionary America: A History in Documents [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012], p. 144).

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