{"id":2573,"date":"2019-11-18T19:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/?post_type=product&#038;p=2573"},"modified":"2023-06-21T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:43:11","slug":"did-america-have-a-christian-founding-by-mark-david-hall","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/?product=did-america-have-a-christian-founding-by-mark-david-hall","title":{"rendered":"Did America Have a Christian Founding? by Mark David Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America&#8217;s Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many Americans have been taught\u00a0a distorted, inaccurate account\u00a0of our nation\u2019s founding, one that claims\u00a0that the founders were deists who desired\u00a0the strict separation of church and state\u00a0and that the country\u2019s founding political\u00a0ideas developed without reference to\u00a0Christianity. In this revelatory, rigorously\u00a0argued new book, Mark David Hall thoroughly\u00a0debunks that modern myth and\u00a0shows instead that the founders\u2019 political\u00a0ideas were profoundly influenced by their\u00a0Christian convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing from hundreds of personal\u00a0letters, public proclamations, early state\u00a0constitutions and laws, and other original\u00a0documents, Professor Hall makes the\u00a0airtight case that America\u2019s founders were\u00a0not deists; that they did not create a \u201cgodless\u201d\u00a0Constitution; that even Jefferson and\u00a0Madison did not want a high wall separating\u00a0church and state; that most founders\u00a0believed the government should encourage\u00a0Christianity; and that they embraced a\u00a0robust understanding of religious liberty\u00a0for biblical and theological reasons. In\u00a0addition, Hall explains why and how the\u00a0founders\u2019 views are absolutely relevant today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did America Have a Christian Founding?<\/em> is\u00a0a compelling, utterly convincing closing\u00a0argument in the debate about the role of\u00a0faith in the nation\u2019s founding, making it\u00a0clear that Christian thought was crucial to\u00a0the nation\u2019s founding\u2014and demonstrating\u00a0that this benefits all of us, whatever our\u00a0faith (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n<p>Hardcover, 212 pages.\u00a0 RETAIL $27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h5 id=\"title\" class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2574,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[64,15,56,35,80],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2573","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-america","7":"product_cat-books","8":"product_cat-clearance","9":"product_cat-history-cultural-studies","10":"product_cat-reference","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"sale","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}