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The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding

Hardcover • 2003 • English

The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding

By David W. Hall

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About the book

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. Calvinism's 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. Hall's timely work countervails many scholars' do...Show more

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9780739106396

Publisher

Lexington Books

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding

Format

Hardcover

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