The colonies and their churches -- The libertarians: Jefferson and Madison -- The icons: Franklin and Washington -- The philosophies: Adams and Jefferson -- The churches and the people.
Originally published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1990, in series: Cambridge studies in religion and American public life. With new introd.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index.
Contents
Chapters: The creation of religious liberty in early Pennsylvania -- Pacifism and religious liberty -- The clergy and religious liberty -- Religious liberty in the revolution -- Religious liberty and the Republic -- Politicians debate religious liberty -- The churches and religious liberty -- The legal implications of religious liberty -- Religious liberty and the Catholic and Jewish minorities.
Summary
Using a wide variety of sources-legal documents, church records, sermons, political tracts, diaries, newspapers, and government records-this book traces Pennsylvania's distinctive religious and political development, how it has influenced the nation and how, in turn, the nation has impacted upon it. The book covers the ongoing discussions about pacifism, rights for Jews and blacks, prayer in public schools, Sunday legislation, and other religious topics from William Penn's time through to World War II. It demonstrates how Pennsylvania developed a tradition of actively promoting religion that, after World War II, resulted in U.S. Supreme Court rulings that cited the state for violations of First Amendment rights. [from the publisher]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
An example of a house blessing can be found here: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/5861
Summary
This book features printed house blessings, a type of Pennsylvania German broadside that is often classified with fraktur because major fraktur artists decorated them. In fact, as God Bless This House points out, few fraktur artists made freehand examples of these blessings, but some artists designed press-printed examples, and many others added color and freehand artwork to printed sheets.
"This book traces the history of pacifism in America from colonial times to the start of World War I. The author describes how the immigrant peace sects -Quaker, Mennonite, and Dunker- faced the challenges of a hostile environment. The peace societies that sprang up after 1815 form the subject of the next section, with particular attention focused upon the American Peace Society and Garrison's New England Non-Resistance Society. A series of chapters on the reactions of these sects and societies to the Civil War, the neglect of pacifism in the postwar period, and the beginnings of a renewal in the years before the outbreak of war in Europe bring the book to a close. The emphasis on the institutional aspects of the movement is balanced throughout by a rich mine of accounts about the experiences of individual pacifists." [from Amazon.com]
Two sins against tolerance.--An open letter to the conservative majority.--The sanctity of law.--Defending a bad cause.--The country lawyer.--A letter to my father.--A brief on the play scene in Hamlet.--A freeman's will.--Foreward to Leviathan and natural law.--The things that are Caesar's.--The things that are not Caesar's.--E pluribus unum.--Democracy and natural law.--Shakespeare and the law.--Browning and the law.--The idea of God as affected by modern knowledge.--The significance of American citizenship.--Religio advocati.
The 6th ed., with additions: particularly one whole book of Mr. Le Crec's against indiffenence of what religion a man is of. Done into English by John Clarke.
by Hugo Grotius. Corrected and illustrated with notes, by Mr. Le Clerc. To which is added, a seventh book, concerning this question, what Christian church we ought to join ourselves to? By the said Mr. Le Clerc.
The 6th ed., with additions: particularly one whole book of Mr. Le Crec's against indiffenence of what religion a man is of. Done into English by John Clarke.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes [etc., etc.]
Date of Publication
1761.
Physical Description
16 p. l., 350 p. 21 cm.
Notes
"Bought at the sale of the Juliana Library in Lancaster Co., Mr. Geo., Weitzel, 1843 Lebanon."
Delivered at the Church of Our Father, (Unitarian) Lancaster, Pa. on Nov. 13, 1952.
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century.
