The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 2009 M11 10 - 288 páginas What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... Elias Boudinot at the Princeton University Library, of John Dickinson at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of Roger Sherman at the Yale University Library, as well as the microfilm editions of the papers of John Adams at the ...
... Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress, Director of the United States Mint, and a prolific religious polemicist. Boudinot is of particular importance, because he was a born-again Presbyterian, whose evangelical views were ...
... Elias Boudinot (1740–1821). New Jersey politician. President of the Confederation Congress, 1782–1783; director of the United States Mint, 1795–1805; first president of the American Bible Society, 1816. A Presbyterian. Charles Carroll ...
... Elias Boudinot, “Oration to the Society of the Cincinnati,” July 4, 1793. Jane J. Boudinot, ed., The Life, Public Services, Addresses, and Letters ofElias Boudinot (New York: DaCapo Press, 1971), 361. American Revolution 17.
... never observed before. In short, were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable. John Adams to Benjamin Rush, February 2, 1807. Old Family Letters, 127–28. Elias Boudinot, The Age of Revelation (Philadelphia: Asbury Dickins, 1801),