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He published “Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion” in November 1728 to present his views on religion. In it, he professed a belief in one God who created the universe and endowed humans with reason so that they could discover his laws. However, he did not mention much religious dogma. As to the belief in Jesus Christ’s divinity, he ...
To Franklin's delight, Hemphill's passionate sermons both “inculcated strongly the practice of virtue” and united Christians with “Freethinkers, Deists, and Nothings.” 60 Because Hemphill emphasized “Good Works” with little dogma, “orthodox Presbyterians . . . arraign'd him of heterodoxy.” 61.
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Jun 5, 2017 · He was the preeminent American figure in the transatlantic “republic of letters” before the American Revolution. At first glance, Franklin’s religion would seem to fit a mold of Enlightenment secularism, too. By his mid-teens, Franklin’s exposure to writings by skeptical critics of Christianity helped him become a “thorough deist ...
The Complicated Religious Life of Ben Franklin. by Thomas S. Kidd. May 25, 2017, marked the 230th anniversary of the opening of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The text of the unamended Constitution is notably secular, save for references like the “Year of our Lord” 1787. But the lack of religion in the document does not mean ...
But no stories from Benjamin’s youth depict him as pious or faithful; rather, others described him as “skeptical, puckish ... and irreverent.”. Removed after a year by his father from the Latin School and enrolled in a writing and arithmetic academy, Benjamin ultimately educated himself from the age of ten on. Keywords: probably, candle ...
May 12, 2017 · He was a “deist.”. We know so because he tells us in his celebrated Autobiography. Franklin grew up as the child of devout Puritans in Boston, and at one point they considered sending Ben to Harvard for training as a pastor. But the teenage Franklin’s voracious reading habits made him skeptical about his parents’ Calvinist convictions.
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Ralph Frasca contends that in his later life he can be considered a non-denominational Christian, although he did not believe Christ was divine. [241] In a major scholarly study of his religion, Thomas Kidd argues that Franklin believed that true religiosity was a matter of personal morality and civic virtue.
