Frederick Jackson Turner, Frontier, and Protestantism
The subjugation of the frontier seems to have been done through institutions that were at best ambivalent about democracy, liberalism, and individualism.
Musings on history, politics, religion, and all the other things we take too seriously in the 21st Century.
The subjugation of the frontier seems to have been done through institutions that were at best ambivalent about democracy, liberalism, and individualism.
In 1835 Lyman Beecher wrote his Plea for the West, urging Protestants to settle and proselytize the American West lest Roman Catholics convert the whole region. Eight years earlier, Philander…
The United States’ centennial celebrations in 1876 took place in a republic barely a decade removed from a civil war that killed over 700,000 men. The ensuing decade that followed…
Anglicanism represented the best chance of making the American West civilized and Protestant.
Protestant intellectuals, particularly those involved in colleges, universities, and seminaries, denounced phrenology and racialized science as incompatible with Christianity.
Evangelicals are not the only ones who have assumed the need for a religious body politic in America.
Theology, it appeared to Hodge, naturally included political theology
Liberals historically did not accede to Enlightenment or secularist ideology regarding the civil order.
Was the early American republic really marked by deism, the Enlightenment, and secularity?
1800 saw the invention of a secular America, not a Christian one. There was no need to invent an explicitly Christian founding, largely because the Christian socio-civil foundation of the republic was already largely assumed.
