The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed (Hardcover)

The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed
In this eloquent little book, leading colonial historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr., provides a highly readable overview of the religious beliefs of eleven of the most esteemed men of the generation that declared our independence and wrote the U. S. Constitution. Perhaps for the first time, we confront the breadth and diversity of the Founding Fathers’ thinking on religious matters. In fact, their sustained ruminations on issues of religion, conscience, and ethics contributed to making their era one of the greatest in human history.

As Mapp contends, there was “no monolithic national faith acknowledged by all Founding Fathers. Their religious attitudes were as varied as their political opinions.” ...