Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father

by Thomas S. Kidd

Book Overview

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith

Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300217498
• ISBN13: 9780300217490
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"