Classical Education in the Protestant Tradition

Educating American Christians on the Declaration of Independence’s 250th Anniversary

by Larry P. Arnn

On the Declaration It is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Why would that be of interest to an ecclesiastical publication? Begin with the obvious thing. God appears four times in the text of the Declaration, once as each branch of government and once as the “Creator.” In Thomas Jefferson’s invocation of “the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” we see the legislative branch; “the Supreme Judge of the world” oversees the judiciary;…