2016 Workshop Talk | 1:05:39 | All Grade Levels, History
Summary
I begin this workshop by exploring the question “Did America have a Christian founding?” I suggest several possible answers, and explore different ways Christianity influenced AmericaÍs founders. I contend that the founders shared a commitment to protecting religious liberty, but there is virtually no evidence that they wanted the strict separation of church and state. I conclude by sharing accessible resources that can be used to teach about these issues in a responsible manner.
Speaker
Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. He has written, edited, or co-edited The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742_1798 (1997); The Founders on God and Government (2004); Collected Works of James Wilson (2007), The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life (2009), The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding (2009), America’s Forgotten Founders (2012), Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic (2013), Faith and the Founders of the American Republic (2014), Collected Works of Roger Sherman (forthcoming), Great Christian Jurists in American History (under contract) and more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, reviews, and sundry pieces. Mark is also senior fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, an affiliate scholar at the John Jay Ins
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