Isaac Backus on Church, State, and Calvinism: Pamphlets, 1754-1789 - Couverture rigide

Backus, Isaac

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674280334 ISBN 13 : 9780674280335

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1968

Synopsis

Isaac backus, whose career spanned the sixty years from the first to the second great awakening, was the most forceful and effective spokesman for the evangelical theory of the separation of church and state that america has produced. In this respect, as william mcloughlin points out in his detailed and perceptive introduction, backus deserves to rank with roger williams and thomas jefferson. His ambition, not finally achieved until a generation after his death, was to obtain religious liberty and equality for all sects through the disestablishment of the congregational churches in new england. Born in connecticut in 1724, backus began his ministerial life as a lay exhorter for the separate baptists; eventually, in 1766, he helped found the antipedobaptist church. In the course of his long career he contributed significantly to the rationale of the baptist movement and to the reconciliation of calvin・ ・s beliefs in human depravity and predestination with the enlightenment・ ・s faith in * will and self-determination.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1968
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674280334
• ISBN 13: 9780674280335
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 531
• Éditeur: McLoughlin William G
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