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"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values
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The "Culture Wars" have produced a lot of talk about religion, morals, and values, with both sides often hearkening back to our Founding Fathers. Here is your chance to learn firsthand what two of the most influential pillars of the American Republic thought about these perennial topics. From 1812 to July 4, 1826---when ironically death claimed both men---Thomas Jefferson and John Adams exchanged letters touching on these still controversial issues. These little-known letters contain many surprising revelations. In the 1800 presidential election, in which the Republican Jefferson opposed the Federalist Adams, religion was a topic of hot debate, as reflected in this correspondence written many years after. What was it about Jefferson's religious beliefs that provoked such vitriol against him in the campaign? And what was there in Adam's theology that prompted certain Calvinists to label him "no Christian"? Though they expressed different opinions, Jefferson and Adams agreed on what they called the "corruptions of Christianity." Despite their criticisms and their critics, both men considered themselves Christians, in different senses of the term. Hearing these champions of liberty and freedom of religion speak out frankly on church and state, the Bible, Jesus, Christianity, morality, and virtue, modern readers may well ask themselves whether either of these Founding Fathers could today be elected president. Editor Bruce Braden has done us all a service by collecting this revealing and intimate historical correspondence on topics that continue to stir emotions and debate in the 21st century.
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Pages 258
Dimensions: Length: 9.1" Width: 5.9" Height: 1"
Weight: 0.95 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Nov 7, 2005
ISBN 1591023564
EAN 9781591023562
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 | Early religous discussion among the founding fathers Apr 22, 2006 |
There's lots of talk about religion and politics and separations of church and state: here's what two of the leaders of the early American Republic thought about religion and politics and their affect on American life in "YE WILL SAY I AM NO CHRISTIAN": THE THOMAS JEFFERSON/JOHN ADAMS CORRESPONDENCE ON RELIGION, MORALS AND VALUES. Granted, it's a specialty item which will probably receive its best audience in advanced high school to college-level holdings; but the letters between the two greats offer frank assessments of church, liberty and freedom of religion and should not be missed by any serious reader of American history or political science.
| | | | In their own words Feb 23, 2006 |
| I hope the readers will appreciate discovering Jefferson and Adams in their own words, as I did when I first discovered these letters. The book permits both men to speak for themselves on matters of religion, morals, and values. In addition, if the reader then goes on to read some of the authors and texts cited in over 300 footnotes, one will find other valuable sources of wisdom and ethics. Read from and about Dupuis, Volney, Marcus Aurelius, Priestley, Epictetus, Madame de Stael, for instance, and you will perhaps find the same fascination I did in lives lived long before our time. | | | Write your own review about "Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values
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