"From the founding of the colonies to the declaration of the Supreme Court, America's heritage is built upon the principles of the Christian religion. And yet the secularists are dismantling this foundation brick by brick, attempting to deny the very core of our national life. Gary DeMar presents well-documented facts which will change your perspective about what it means to be a Christian in America; the truth about America's Christian past as it relates to supreme court justices, and presidents; the Christian character of colonial charters, state constitutions, and the US Constitution; the Christian foundation of colleges, the Christian character of Washington, D.C.; the origin of Thanksgiving and so much more."--Publisher's description.
America's Christian History: The Untold Story
Rosalie Slater's classic volume (designed to accompany Verna Hall's CHOC I) describes a curriculum for teaching and learning America's Christian history and the historic method of education, the Principle Approach.
Readers on both sides of the issues will appreciate that this book occupies a middle ground, noting the good points and the less-nuanced arguments of both sides and leading us always back to the primary sources that our shared American ...
Explores the historical record and the early documents of America in order to examine the claims that the nation was founded by Christian principles.
In Alan Wolfe's words, they believed that “God set the world in motion and then abstained from human affairs.”3 In this chapter, I demonstrate that there is virtually no evidence that America's founders embraced such views.
The omens of a domestic dictatorship were clear, Senator Albert Hawkes agreed. “After careful examination of the records during the past ten years, one can only conclude that there is the objective of the assumption of greater power and ...
In an era when white evangelicals' political commitments baffle many observers, this book offers a key for understanding how they continually reimagine the American story and their own place in it.
By no means exhaustive, this work demonstrates that America's Founding Fathers clearly intended to perpetuate the Christian faith, in both private and public observances.
Through careful historical and contemporary analysis, the authors address such issues as how much Christian action is required to make a whole society Christian; incorrect views of America's history for effective Christian involvement in ...
Compilation for study groups of documents showing the rise of self-government in a religious-oriented America from colonial times through the American Revolution. For contents, see Author Catalog.