In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that Calvinism had
a greater influence on America's founders than contemporary
scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have
understood. Calvinism's insistence that human rulers tend 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. Hall's
timely work countervails many scholars' doubt in the intellectual
efficacy of religion by showing that religious teachings have led
to such progressive ideals as American democracy and freedom.
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