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

by Mark David Hall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400211131
• ISBN13: 9781400211135
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Public Evidence for Founders' Private Faith

Wonderfully presented argument for the Christian founding of the U.S. without being argumentative. Hall does a good job of explaining why some have asserted the Fathers were deist and how that fringe line of reasoning has been recently amplified.