The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding

by David W. Hall

Book Overview

In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinism's insistence on human rulers' tendency to err played a significant role in the founders' prescription of limited government and fed the distinctly American philosophy in which political freedom for citizens is held as the highest value...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073911106X
• ISBN13: 9780739111062
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"