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Thursday, November 22, 2018

St. George Tucker and the Theology of the Common Law

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Legendary scholar Walter Berns had the following to say about the notion that "Christianity" was part of the "common law....
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Frazer's New Book Review at Christianity Today

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Check it out here . A taste: This book is a righteous tribute to Loyalist pastors, who took up their cause with integrity, erudition, and...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Q&A with Christopher Grasso, author of Skepticism and American Faith: ...

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Check it out at The Junto here . A taste: Christopher Grasso  earned his PhD from Yale in 1992, taught at St. Olaf College, and came to W...
Wednesday, November 07, 2018

On Gregg Frazer's New Book

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Check the story out here . As it reads: New from the University Press of Kansas:  God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy's C...
Sunday, November 04, 2018

St. George Tucker, Religion & the American Founding, Postscript

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A subtitle to this post is "the power of missing quotation marks." You can view the last of my series on St. George Tucker here ....
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

St. George Tucker, Religion & the American Founding, Part V

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See  parts I ,  II ,  III ,  and IV . This is the fifth and final part of the series and I hope you read my analysis at the end, because...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

St. George Tucker, Religion & the American Founding, Part IV

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See  parts I ,  II , and III .  Paragraph breaks added for clarity . The church establishment in England is one of the mildest sort. Bu...
Monday, October 29, 2018

St. George Tucker, Religion & the American Founding, Part III

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See  parts I   and II .  Paragraph breaks added for clarity . In liberty of conscience says the elegant Dr. Price, I include much more ...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

St. George Tucker, Religion & the American Founding, Part II

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See Part I .  Paragraph breaks added for clarity : The right of personal opinion is one of those absolute rights which man hath receive...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

St. George Tucker, Religion & the American Founding, Part I

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One of the things we, along with many scholars, have done is play up "the key American founders" (the ones on American currency, e...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Old Article in First Things

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The Internet is a strange place. In case you missed it, there has been a lot of growth in the online world over the past 20 years or so. The...
Monday, October 01, 2018

Fea: The Author’s Corner with Gregg Frazer

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It looks like our friend Dr. Gregg Frazer has a new book out entitled God against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case against the Am...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Ben Franklin on Religious "Diffidence"

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In his autobiography Ben Franklin noted that at one point in his younger life he became a "thorough deist. " Franklin immediately...
Friday, August 31, 2018

Thomas Jefferson Believed in the Resurrection

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Just not of Jesus. At least not yet. In his letter to to William Short, October 31, 1819 , Jefferson listed the doctrines which he rejecte...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

St. Athanasius and the American Founding

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I will admit that I have not done comprehensive research on the topic of St. Athanasius and the American founding. But I am aware of a few n...
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Friday, August 03, 2018

Who Was Henry Marten?

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Another question related to this post is "what is reformed Protestantism?" I was involved in the comments section at the Law and...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Fideists Ought Not Try to Claim the Political Theology of the American Founding

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From  Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, May 8, 1825 : All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether ...