[PDF] The Faith Of Americas Presidents eBook

Author : Daniel J. Mount
Publisher :
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780899571089

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Readers will learn the religious beliefs of each president of the United States and how those beliefs influenced the decisions and actions of their lives and their presidencies.

Author : Darrin Grinder
Publisher : Elevate Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1937498956

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The old adage, "never discuss religion and politics," is roundly rejected in this incisive exploration of presidential history and religious faith. The Presidents & Their Faith is a fascinating and informative look at how every U.S. president exercised their personal faith, exerted presidential power, and led a religiously diverse nation. Has there ever been a stranger prayer than Truman's, offered upon America's successful development of the atom bomb: "We pray that He may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes"? At the nation's founding, Northeast Presbyterians demanded explicit mention of Jesus in the Constitution. George Washington refuted them, saying that religious piety "was a matter best left between an individual and his God; religious instruction was the responsibility of religious societies, not the civil state." What drove Washington to make that argument, and what if he had lost? Who wouldn't feel like the exasperated FDR when he said, "I can do almost everything in the 'Goldfish Bowl' of the President's life, but I'll be hanged if I can say my prayers in it. It bothers me to feel like something in the zoo being looked at by all the tourists in Washington when I go to church...No privacy in that kind of going to church, and by the time I have gotten into that pew and settled down with everybody looking at me, I don't feel like saying my prayers at all." But even more importantly, what's real, what's a show, and why does it matter when it comes to faith and politics? > These questions and more are unpacked and examined, leading to a whole new understanding of how religion and politics interfaced through America's history, and how they will play out in our future. In this climate of religious and political tensions, The Presidents & Their Faith casts a civil, yet entertaining, and insightful spotlight on the unique mix (and frequent mix-ups) of politics and religion in America.

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199391394

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Continuing the work of Faith and the Presidency (OUP 2006), Gary Scott Smith takes on eleven more US presidents and examines the role religion played in their policies, personal lives, and decisions.

Author : Mark J. Rozell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2024-01-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 303140758X

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This book chronologically analyzes fourteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Biden, to highlight how religion has informed or influenced their politics and policies. For years, leading scholars have largely neglected religion in presidential studies. Yet, religion has played a significant role in a number of critical presidencies in US history. This volume reveals the deep religious side to such presidents as Truman, Eisenhower, and Reagan, among others, and the impact that faith had on their administrations. Now in its fourth edition, this work includes analysis of Joe Biden as the second Catholic president in United States history and provides a timely update to a key text in the study of religion and the presidency.

Author : Kendra Hazlett Armstrong
Publisher : Lighthouse Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938499654

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""The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life."" Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President. "Exploring the Faith of America's Presidents" is an engaging, enlightening and inspirational resource which examines the role faith has played in the presidency throughout American history--and much more! ""It's refreshing to read a perspective on the foundations of our country that's not driven by partisan political parties. This book quotes ALL Presidents, BOTH Republican and Democrat. It tackles head on the mistakes and the triumphs of our flawed American history."" Rev. Rufus Smith, Sr. Assoc. Pastor, Hope Presbyterian Church, Cordova, TN.

Author : Randall Herbert Balmer
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0060734051

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Bush White House, historian Balmer explores the role religion plays in the personal and political lives of Americas presidents. 16-page b&w photo insert.

Author : John McCollister
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Describes the religious backgrounds of the presidents of the United States and reveals their religious preferences while in office.

Author : John Sutherland Bonnell
Publisher : Philadelphia : Westminster Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Thirty-six capsule biographies sum up the public events and the private presuppositons in the lives of the men who became Presidents of the United States.

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195300602

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