Books written by Mark David Hall
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Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
In Alan Wolfe's words, they believed that “God set the world in motion and then abstained from human affairs.”3 In this chapter, I demonstrate that there is virtually no evidence that America's founders embraced such views.
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America's Forgotten Founders, second edition
Gary L Gregg, Mark David Hall. The law of nature, the law of nations, and the municipal law form the objects of the profession of law. From this short, but plain and, I hope, just statement of things, we perceive a principle of ...
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Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic
This book explores Sherman's political theory and shows how it informed his many contributions to America's founding.
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Faith and the Founders of the American Republic
This volume offers essays on a variety of religious views and beliefs that shaped late-eighteenth-century public life, such as the contribution of evangelical denominations to advancing religious liberty.
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Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth
In this revelatory, rigorously argued new book, Mark David Hall thoroughly debunks that modern myth and shows instead that the founders' political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.
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Faith and the Founders of the American Republic
Thirteen essays written by leading scholars explore the impact of a rich variety of religious traditions on the political thought of America's founders.
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Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic
This book explores Sherman's political theory and shows how it informed his many contributions to America's founding.
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Faith and the Founders of the American Republic
He also attempted to have a clause approved that would forbid religious establishment in the state, but was unable to find the votes to get it inserted. See Buckley, Church and State, 18–19. 22. Isaac Backus, The Diary of Isaac Backus, ...
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The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life
This interdisciplinary volume brings together essays on eleven of the founders of the American republic--Abigail Adams, Samuel Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Paine, Edmund Randolph,...
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America's Forgotten Founders: Beyond Washington and Jefferson
The book contains essential biographical material, summations of major accomplishments, and primary source material from the pens of these forgotten founders. --from publisher description.
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Great Christian Jurists in American History
This volume profiles nineteen of America's most influential Christian jurists from the early colonial era to the present day.
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America and the Just War Tradition: A History of U.S. Conflicts
America and the Just War Tradition examines and evaluates each of America’s major wars from a just war perspective.
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The Founders on God and Government
Gould , William D. ' The Religious Opinions of Thomas Jefferson . " Mississippi Valley Historical Review 20 ( 1933 ) : 191-208 . Hall . David W. The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding . Lanham , MD : Lexington Books , 2003 .
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The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-state Relations in the American Founding
The Sacred Rights of Conscience contains original documents from both public and private papers, such as constitutions, statutes, legislative resolutions, speeches, sermons, newspapers, letters, and diaries. These documents provide a...
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Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans
From the American Puritans—who created some of the most republican and free institutions the world had ever seen—to America’s founders’ opposition to slavery, to contemporary Christian legal advocacy groups that fight to protect ...
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Great Christian Jurists in American History
This volume profiles nineteen of America's most influential Christian jurists from the early colonial era to the present day.
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America's Forgotten Founders, Second Edition
This book features engaging short biographies of the top ten most important Founders whose contributions are overlooked today: James Wilson, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, John Jay, Roger Sherman, John Marshall, John Dickinson, Thomas ...
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Faith and the Founders of the American Republic
This volume will be a crucial resource for anyone interested in the place of faith in the founding of the American constitutional republic, from political, religious, historical, and legal perspectives.
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America's Forgotten Founders, second edition
This unique book features engaging short biographies of the top ten most important Founders whose contributions are overlooked today: James Wilson, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, John Jay, Roger Sherman, John Marshall, John Dickinson, ...
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America's Forgotten Founders
This unique book features engaging short biographies of the top ten most important Founders whose contributions are overlooked today: James Wilson, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, John Jay, Roger Sherman, John Marshall, John Dickinson, ...