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Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father
By Kidd, Thomas S.
- ISBN
- 9780300217490
- Publisher
- Yale Univ.
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Starred Review on April 15, 2017 | Founding Fathers
If the relationship of the Founding Fathers to religion were to be put in Facebook terms, it would be: "It's complicated." This is even truer of Benjamin Franklin's relationship to Christianity. Kidd (history, Baylor Univ.; coauthor, Baptists in America), an evangelical historian trained at the University of Notre Dame, has carefully culled Franklin's (1706–90) works in an attempt to ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
