Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with
limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless
curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called
"providence"), Franklin became one of Philadelphia's most prominent
leaders, a world recognized scientist, and the United States'
leading diplomat during the War for Independence. Along the way,
Franklin embodied the Protestant ethics and cultural habits he
learned and observed as a youth in Puritan Boston. Benjamin
Franklin: Cultural Protestant follows Franklin's remarkable career
through the lens of the trends and innovations that the Protestant
Reformation started (both directly and indirectly) almost two
centuries earlier. His work as a printer, civic reformer,
institution builder, scientist, inventer, writer, self-help
dispenser, politician, and statesmen was deeply rooted in the
culture and outlook that Protestantism nurtured. Through its
alternatives to medieval church and society, Protestants built
societies and instilled habits of character and mind that allowed
figures such as Franklin to build the life that he did. Through it
all, Franklin could not assent to all of Protestantism's doctrines
or observe its worship, but for most of his life he acknowledged
his debt to his creator, revelled in the natural world guided by
providence, and conducted himself in a way (imperfectly) to merit
divine approval. In this biography, D. G. Hart recognizes Franklin
as a cultural or non-observant Protestant, someone who thought of
himself as a Presbyterian, ordered his life as other Protestants
did, sometimes went to worship services, read his Bible, and
prayed, but could not go all the way and join a church.
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