So Help Me God

Church, Forrest

ISBN 10: 0151011850 / ISBN 13: 9780151011858

Published by Harcourt, Orlando, 2007

About this Item

8vo (22 x 16 cm). 530 pp. Inscribed by author on title page to Charlotte and Henry Kimelman. Henry L. Kimelman was an American businessman, political adviser and diplomat (Ambassador to Haiti 1980-1981). Unclipped DJ in Mylar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: So Help Me God
• Publisher: Harcourt, Orlando
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151011850
• ISBN 13: 9780151011858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Stated First Edition.
• Condition: Near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • History & Historiography

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Synopsis

Today’s dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a powerful retelling of the birth of the American body politic, religious historian Forrest Church describes our first great culture war―a tumultuous yet nearly forgotten conflict that raged from George Washington’s presidency to James Monroe’s. On one side of the battle, the proponents of order―Federalists, Congregationalists, New Englanders―believed that the only legitimate ruler of men is God. On the other side, the defenders of liberty―republicans, Baptists, Virginians―cheered the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and believed that only the separation of church and state would preserve man’s freedom. Would we be a nation under God, or with liberty for all?

In this vigorous history, Forrest Church offers a new vision of our earliest presidents’ beliefs, reshaping assumptions about the debates that still reverberate across our land.

About the Author

Forrest Church earned his doctorate in Church History at Harvard University and has written or edited over twenty-two books, including The Separation of Church and State.