The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding

David W. Hall

The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
28 January 2005
Pages
508
ISBN
9780739111062

The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding

David W. Hall

In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinisms insistence on human rulers tendency 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. Halls 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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