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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
Fabric Type: 9780742531154
Legal Disclaimer: 0742531155
Maximum Color Depth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Metal Type: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 256
Total External Bays Free: July 07, 2005
Total Firewire Ports: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In The Faiths of Our Fathers, widely acclaimed historian Alf Mapp, Jr. cuts through the historical uncertainty to accurately portray the religious beliefs of eleven of America's founding fathers, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. He discovers men with religious beliefs as diverse as their political opinions. These profiles shed light on the lives and times of the revolutionary generation and the role of religion in public life throughout American history.
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I wish I could be more positive about this book, but I cannot. The book discusses the religious beliefs (or at least tries to) of: Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, George Washington, John Marshal, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Charles Carroll and Haym Salomon. Unfortunately, the book contains many factual errors, most of which are glaring and would have been caught by an alert high school student. Let me cite three. Thomas Jefferson campaigned for ... Read More
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On page 17 of his book, Alf Mapp says something very important to anyone reading what America's Founders had to say on religion: "What did Jefferson think about religion? The question invites another: At what age? Glib answers to questions about anyone's views on complex matters are meaningless or misleading when no time is specified."
There are ample quotations on religion by the most prominent and influential Founding Fathers of America - John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, ... Read More
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A nice addition to the biographies of our founding fathers. Many of these individuals were great thinkers who came to their faith in latter years. Even people like Franklin and Jefferson believed in God, although their insightful minds looked at all elements of religion. We learn that there were a smattering of Catholics and Jews in leadership positions, and they guaranteed that religious freedom was allowed for all people. In fact, they guaranteed that people also had the right to not believe if they ... Read More
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Mapp's The Faiths of our Fathers is a light read, appropriate for high school students perhaps. But the editing is poor, factual assertions are inaccurate, and all too often the analysis is weak and deep understanding absent.
The book opens on a note both strong and true: "There was no monolithic national faith acknowledged by all Founding Fathers. Their religious attitudes were as varied as their political opinions." (pp. 1-2). Yet Mapp does not quite deliver on the promise of clearly ... Read More
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I read this book along with David L. Holmes' Faiths of our Founding Fathers and I realized that the author of this book really have a hard time dealing with the concept of Deism which was a popular theological thought among the well educated during the 18th century. Mapp's inability to truly understand how Deism influenced many of his subjects like Franklin, Adams, Madison and Washington proves to be a major failing of this book. While the author went through the motion of describing Deism, he never really explained ... Read More
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