The Founding Fathers in Modern America
The Founding Fathers in Modern America
This chapter argues that conservative Christians’ retellings of the founding of the United States represent a distinct religious practice that has been influential in American politics. Focused on principles rather than on chronology or historical causation, the Christian reading of US history emphasizes the Puritans, the faith of the Founding Fathers, and moments of public Christianity. This reading results from the application of a biblical hermeneutic to the dynamics of history, and it appears in a secularized form in culture war controversies over the meaning of American history.
Keywords: Founding Fathers, American history, Puritans, conservative Christians, hermeneutics, biblicism
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