Contending For The Constitution: Recalling the Christian Influence on the Writing of the Constitution and the Biblical Basis of American Law and Liberty

Mark A. Beliles and Douglas S. Anderson

ISBN 10: 1887456198 / ISBN 13: 9781887456197

Published by Providence Foundation, 2005

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246 pages. 8.80x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contending For The Constitution: Recalling the Christian Influence on the Writing of the Constitution and the Biblical Basis of American Law and Liberty
• Publisher: Providence Foundation
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1887456198
• ISBN 13: 9781887456197
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.11 kilograms

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Synopsis

"Recalling the Christian Influence on the Writing of the Constitution and the Biblical Basis of American Law and Liberty"This companion to Defending the Declaration presents the case that the Constitution is based on Biblical principles and Christian influence. Using primary source evidence, the authors give an easy-reading history of the Constitutional Convention and the Founders' emphasis on religion as being necessary for its success. Evidence is given how the spirit of the Constitution has greatly diminished today and a call for its defense.236 pages, paperback,

About the Author

Mark A. Beliles is an historian and teacher of American religious culture. He is co-author of Doubting Thomas: The Religious Life and Legacy of Thomas Jefferson (Morgan James Faith) and editor of The Selected Religious Letters and Papers of Thomas Jefferson (America Publications, 2013) that included over 50 Jefferson letters never before seen in print. He is co-author of America's Providential History and several other books. Beliles earned his Ph.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary and his dissertation was "Free As the Air"--Churches and Politics in Jefferson's Virginia, 1736-1836. Beliles has organized, with sponsorship of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, several scholarly symposiums held at the University of Virginia on Jefferson and religion that each featured dozens of nationally-known Jefferson scholars and church and state historians. He has contributed to volumes of collected essays such as Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson's Virginia (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000). He resides in Jefferson's hometown where he has served for many years as Chairman of the Charlottesville Historic Resources Committee and co-chairman of the city's 250th Anniversary observed in 2012.