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Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God - Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding (Hardcover)
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Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God - Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding (Hardcover)
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Both reason and religion have been acknowledged by scholars to have
had a profound impact on the foundation and formation of the
American regime. But the significance, pervasiveness, and depth of
that impact have also been disputed. While many have approached the
American founding period with an interest in the influence of
Enlightenment reason or Biblical religion, they have often assumed
such influences to be exclusive, irreconcilable, or contradictory.
Few scholarly works have sought to study the mutual influence of
reason and religion as intertwined strands shaping the American
historical and political experience at its founding. The purpose of
the chapters in this volume, authored by a distinguished group of
scholars in political science, intellectual history, literature,
and philosophy, is to examine how this mutual influence was made
manifest in the American Founding especially in the writings,
speeches, and thought of critical figures (Thomas Paine, Benjamin
Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,
Alexander Hamilton, Charles Carroll), and in later works by key
interpreters of the American Founding (Alexis de Tocqueville and
Abraham Lincoln). Taken as a whole, then, this volume does not
attempt to explain away the potential opposition between religion
and reason in the American mind of the late eighteenth- and early
nineteenth- centuries, but instead argues that there is a uniquely
American perspective and political thought that emerges from this
tension. The chapters gathered here, individually and collectively,
seek to illuminate the animating affect of this tension on the
political rhetoric, thought, and history of the early American
period. By taking seriously and exploring the mutual influence of
these two themes in creative tension, rather than seeing them as
diametrically opposed or as mutually exclusive, this volume thus
reveals how the pervasiveness and resonance of Biblical narratives
and religion supported and infused Enlightened political discourse
and action at the Founding, thereby articulating the
complementarity of reason and religion during this critical period.
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