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Here is a landmark study of Christianity's place in American life across the broad sweep of this country's record, from the Puritans to the presidential supervision of George W. Bush.The struggle within North american Christianity, Garry Wills argues, now and throughout our country's record, is between your brain and the heart and soul: between reason and feelings, Enlightenment and Evangelism. Why has this been so? How has the tension between your two poles played out, and using what consequences, within the last 400 years? How "Christian" is America, in the end? Wills brings a lifetime's price of thought about these questions to keep on a magnificent historical reckoning that offers much needed perspective on a few of the most contentious issues of our own time.A religious revolution occurred in the us in the 18th century, the one that saw the emergence associated with an Enlightenment religious culture whose hallmarks were tolerance for other faiths and a opinion that religion was a matter best divorced from politics corporations - the proverbial "separation of cathedral and state". Wills shows us precisely how extremely radical a departure this separation was; there is simply no precedent for it. To place this step in perspective, Wills offers a grounding in the pre-Enlightenment religion that preceded it, beginning with the early Puritans. Then offers a thrillingly clear unpacking of the steps, specifically Madison's and Jefferson's, where church-state separation was enshrined in the Constitution, and unveils the fantastic irony of the attempts of today's Faith based Right to blur the lines between your two. In fact, it is specifically that separation that has allowed religion in the us to flourish since the disestablishment of religion created a free market, as it were, and competition for souls resulted in the profusion of denominations across the period and breadth of the land.
