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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

Benjamin Franklin
James Monroe
Isaac Backus
Christian Nation
Rhode Island
John Cotton
Franklin's Religious Beliefs
Continental Congress
Establishment
Nature Of God
Presidential Religious Rhetoric
Masschusetts
Samuel Adams
George Synder
Tom Paine
Declaration Of Independence
Danbury Baptists
Corruptions Of Christianity
Conscientious Objectors
Pennsylvania

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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

A Memoir of the Life and Times of Isaac Backus

Isaac Backus was one of the most important Baptist leaders of the revolutionary era. He argued fervently against persecution...

The Jefferson Bible The Life Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

Done with his official work for the day, Thomas Jefferson sat in the new presidential mansion in Washington in 1803 and opened...

Diary of William Bradford

Message from John Adams to the Officers of the First Brigade

In this letter Adams declares point blank that, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly...

The Jefferson Bible The Life Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

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