Faith and Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty [Paperback]

Benjamin Hart (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Lewis & Stanley (August 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0929510046
• ISBN-13: 978-0929510040
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,655,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent history of the roots of American Government, December 16, 1998

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This review is from: Faith and Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty (Paperback)

Faith and Freedom is an excellent history of the ideological roots of American Government. Mr. Hart has done a masterful job of identifying the sources of those ideas that influenced the Founding Fathers and the charters which they wrote. This book defuses the revisionist's arguements that posit that America is a child of the Enlightenment in the same vein as France. Mr. Hart shows that America, unlike France, adopted the Protestant Christian principle that freedoms came from God and not government. Government within this structure was charged with the protection of those God given freedoms. France on the other hand virtually excluded God from discourses that proceeded their revolution, and by doing so, put government in the position to give and take freedoms as it saw fit. Our war for Independence was successful while France's was a bloodbath that failed by all measures. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in an accurate, concise history of this very important episode of the American story.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Historical Scholarship, June 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Faith and Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty (Paperback)

Ben Hart's vision of the American founding is supported by American historical scholarship, viz. Diggins or Kloppenberg etc. For those who don't have access to this scholarship, Hart's book is a very good substitute. It will enlighten those who have a murky or very restricted notion of American history.
Any book that stretches horizons can be worth reading. Hart's book stretches us in a very much needed direction.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent history of England and Christian Amerecan colonies., January 5, 1998

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This review is from: Faith and Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty (Paperback)

Gives a top rate chronology of England's struggle to control and guide the destiny of Christian colonial America.The path to, and the reasons for the "Decloration of Independence" is cogently and methodically reasearched as to the truth the founding fathers understood to be the foundation for freedom, to wit: " The delegates understood very well that liberty has a price, that a people which is immodest, extravagant, and frivolous will not remain free for long.". The conclusion: A free people must have a controling authority and only God fits that bill, for without Him the tyranny of the base passion of human selfishness will in the end have the same result as the worst despot that history can ever recall. It is evident from these early documents to be the very thoughts of our founding fathers. However the editing of printing leaves a lot to be desired.