Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father / Thomas S. Kidd.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017Description: 278 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300217490
- 0300217498
- Benjamin Franklin
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Religious life
- Religion and politics -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Founding Fathers of the United States -- Religious life -- History -- 18th century
- Founding Fathers of the United States -- Biography
- Statesmen. -- United States -- Biography
- Religious life
- Statesmen. -- United States -- Biography
- Religious life
- Statesmen
- United States -- Religion -- To 1800
- 320
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Fort Scott Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Fort Scott Public Library | Adult Books | 200.973 Kidd (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35326000407567 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267) and index.
Child of the Puritans -- Exodus to Philadelphia, sojourn in London -- Philadelphia printer -- Poor Richard -- Ben Franklin's closest Evangelical friend -- Electrical man -- Tribune of the people -- Diplomat -- The pillar of fire.
"Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the 'thorough' deist who emerges in his autobiography. As Thomas Kidd reveals, deist writers influenced Franklin's beliefs, to be sure, but devout Christians in his life--including George Whitefield, the era's greatest evangelical preacher; his parents; and his beloved sister Jane--kept him tethered to the Calvinist creed of his Puritan upbringing. Based on rigorous research into Franklin's voluminous correspondence, essays, and almanacs, this fresh assessment of a well-known figure unpacks the contradictions and conundrums faith presented in Franklin's life." -- Publisher's description.
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