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Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Revised Edition - A Historical Introduction (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Revised Edition - A Historical Introduction (Paperback, Revised edition)
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John Fea offers a thoroughly researched, evenhanded primer on
whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many
evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He
approaches the title's question from a historical perspective,
helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the
recorded facts of our past. This updated edition reports on the
many issues that have arisen in recent years concerning religion's
place in American societyincluding the Supreme Court decision on
same-sex marriage, contraception and the Affordable Care Act, and
state-level restrictions on abortionand demonstrates how they lead
us to the question of whether the United States was or is a
Christian nation. Fea relates the history of these and other
developments, pointing to the underlying questions of national
religious identity inherent in each. "We live in a sound-bite
culture that makes it difficult to have any sustained dialogue on
these historical issues," Fea writes in his preface. "It is easy
for those who argue that America is a Christian nation (and those
who do not) to appear on radio or television programs, quote from
one of the founders or one of the nation's founding documents, and
sway people to their positions. These kinds of arguments, which can
often be contentious, do nothing to help us unravel a very
complicated historical puzzle about the relationship between
Christianity and America's founding."
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