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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

Clergy
Calvin
Jefferson's Religious Beliefs
Value Of Religion
William Bradford
Patriots
Protestants
Madison'S Religious Beliefs
Baptists
Deism
Colonies
John Locke
Declaration Of Independence
Anne Hutchinson
Connecticut
George Whitefield
Toleration
Pennsylvania
Pluralism
Salvation

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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...

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Mrs Samuel H Smith

After a friend reports that she'd heard that Jefferson had become religious, Jefferson scathingly explains that his views had...

The Rights of the Colonists

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr Thomas Cooper

Jefferson believed Unitarianism would become the dominant religion. He also explains why he has no professor of divinity at...

Diary of John Adams November 30 1804

Adams explains how a controversy over a preacher drove him away from choosing the ministry as a career. Bryant had been driven...

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