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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

Religious Tyranny
Trinity
Corruptions Of Christianity
Nature Of God
Christian America
Locke
American Independence
Jefferson Bible
George Synder
Colonies
Religious Test
Patriots
Puritans
Mayflower Passengers
Northwest Territory
Delaware
Nature Of Man
Christopher Columbus
Maryland
Christian Nation

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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

Letter from James Madison to James Monroe

In the third paragraph, Madison updates his friend James Monroe about the "general assessment," Patrick Henry's proposal to tax...

A New Version of the Lords Prayer

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Canby

Jefferson praises Jesus but says those who believe in the "those moral precepts in which all religions concur" will go to heaven.

A Bill Establishing A Provision for Teachers of the Christia

After the revolutionary war, some in Virginia came to fear that religion had gone into decline. Church buildings had been destroyed...

Proclamation for public humiliation fasting and prayer

Madison had resisted issuing Presidential prayer proclamations but in the midst of the war with Britain, he did provide this...

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