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2019-04-09 2019-04-09

The Founding Faith Archive

Early documents on religious freedom and the spiritual beliefs of the Founding Fathers.

Authors

Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
George Washington
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
Isaac Backus

Topics

Afterlife
Pennsylvania
Presbyterianism
Jonas Phillips
Corruptions Of Christianity
Rhode Island
Presidential Addresses
First Amendment
Anne Hutchinson
Vermont
Religious Persecution
Luther Martin
Clergy Holding Office
Religious Tests
John Winthrop
Patriots
Revolutionary War
US Government
Madison'S Religious Beliefs
Illuminati

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Founding Faith

“If asked to recommend the best book on this controversial topic, I would choose Founding Faith.”

- Joseph Ellis, author of American CreationFounding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

The Rights of the Colonists

Written later in his life, this Autobiography recalled the phase when he called himself a "Deist." Despite that appellation,...

Letter from James Madison to FL Schaeffer

An aging James Madison write that American history has proved that religion thrives most when it is independent of government....

Letter from John Admas to Thomas Jefferson

Adams bristles as the Calvinist notion that a man's fate is determined by the grace of God instead of good works. He rejects...

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