Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
by Daniel Dreisbach, OUP, £20
Talk to the wrong American political pundit and you may come away with the impression that the nation’s founding fathers had little interest in religion and wanted to banish faith from the public sphere. Nothing could be further from the truth.
As Daniel Dreisbach’s outstanding new book demonstrates, Scripture was central to 18th-century political discourse in America – providing imagery, rhetorical flourishes and, crucially, insights into all manner of philosophical and intellectual conundrums.
