Faith and Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

by Benjamin Hart

Book Overview

Shatters most popular misconceptions about America's history and tells the story of an idea of freedom. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898402395
• ISBN13: 9780898402391
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Spring Arbor Distributors
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Must Read For Christians

Faith & Freedom provides the historical backdrop for the formation of our country that has been removed from contemporary textbooks by revisionist historians and secular scholars. In short, the book documents the role transcendent law played in establishing liberty, and counsels that secularism cannot guarantee the same freedom. Hart's thesis is well-documented and the narrative flows with illustrations and arguments that maintain the reader's interest. As a longtime public school teacher, I recommend this work as a classroom supplement both in Christian and secular settings.

Historical Scholarship

Ben Hart's vision of the American founding is supported by American historical scholarship, viz. Diggins or Kloppenberg etc. For those who don't have access to this scholarship, Hart's book is a very good substitute. It will enlighten those who have a murky or very restricted notion of American history. Any book that stretches horizons can be worth reading. Hart's book stretches us in a very much needed direction.

Well Written, Important Work

This book ought to be on the shelves of every high school and college student in America. Barring a reprint, I recommend purchasing a used copy as soon as one comes available. Hart reconstructs for the reader the American experience and explains events of history as they interceded with people of faith (and those whose faith has been in doubt or discredited). Hart understands, as our founders did, that character is in fact important in both the life of a laborer and the lives of those holding the public trust, and he uses uncanny insight to relay how that faith affected the actions of our forefathers. From Plymouth Rock and Jamestown to the Salem Witch Trials, the Declaration of Independence and beyond, Hart honestly tells the tale of America, and perhaps unknowingly provides the keys to rediscovering the qualities that made this nation at one time the most envied culture in the world.

An outstanding chronicle of how a nation was born.

This should be required reading for each and every high school senior before graduation. Hart has complied the facts and stories that no longer appear in the mainstream media.

Excelent history of England and Christian Amerecan colonies.

Gives a top rate chronology of England's struggle to control and guide the destiny of Christian colonial America.The path to, and the reasons for the "Decloration of Independence" is cogently and methodically reasearched as to the truth the founding fathers understood to be the foundation for freedom, to wit: " The delegates understood very well that liberty has a price, that a people which is immodest, extravagant, and frivolous will not remain free for long.". The conclusion: A free people must have a controling authority and only God fits that bill, for without Him the tyranny of the base passion of human selfishness will in the end have the same result as the worst despot that history can ever recall. It is evident from these early documents to be the very thoughts of our founding fathers. However the editing of printing leaves a lot to be desired.