Contending For The Constitution - Douglas Anderson, Mark Beliles

"Recalling the Christian Influence on the Writing of the Constitution and the Biblical Basis of American Law and Liberty" This companion to Defending the Declaration presents the case that the Constitution is based on Biblical principles and Christian influence. Using primary source evidence, the authors give an easy-reading history of the Constitutional Convention and the Founders' emphasis on religion as being necessary for its success. Evidence is given how the spirit of the Constitution has greatly diminished today and a call for its defense.


About the author:
Mark A. Beliles is an historian and teacher of American religious culture. He is editor of The Selected Religious Letters and Papers of Thomas Jefferson (America Publications, 2013) that included over 50 Jefferson letters never before seen in print. Beliles earned his Ph.D. from Whitefield Theological Seminary and his dissertation was "Free As the Air"--Churches and Politics in Jefferson's Virginia, 1736-1836. The dissertation and another book in 2014 entitled "Playful in His Closet"--The Complete Religious History of Thomas Jefferson are both available at www.AmericaPublications.com. Beliles has organized, with sponsorship of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, several scholarly symposiums held at the University of Virginia on Jefferson and religion that each featured dozens of nationally-known Jefferson scholars and church and state historians. He has contributed to volumes of collected essays such as Religion and Political Culture in Jefferson's Virginia (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000). He resides in Jefferson's hometown where he has served for many years as Chairman of the Charlottesville Historic Resources Committee and co-chairman of the city's 250th Anniversary observed in 2012.

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