Summary Of God Of Liberty By Thomas Kidd

God of Liberty, written by Baylor University’s history professor Thomas S. Kidd, was overall a bit confusing to say the least. “It is a history of evangelical Protestantism in America, a study that links the religious beliefs of our Founders into a political alliance and, finally, a meditation on religion’s role in today’s increasingly secular American political scene.” This book is the reminder of how huge religion played a role in creating this country. This is important I believe because, while the people remember how it happened and who did the building of this country, I believe that religion provided the morals that they set this nation to be built on. It starts off in the 13 British Colonial ventures in North America were a place of contradicting religious beliefs. The only problem was that most of the early settlers who were coming to our country were trying to flee the dangerous intolerance on England’s religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. These wars were between the Church of England and the various denomination sects; and political conflicts that had many religious ties involving the Scottish and Irish dependencies. Although at the time, our Founders did not hesitate to deny anyone
During this, he goes on to identify the British North American colonies, arguing that differences between the Churches of our time and the Churches of before would dramatically pertain to the ideas of religious and political liberty, which I believe in the long run helped create this fine nation. He begins his argument by saying the Great Awakening paved the foundation for the Revolution. Continuing on, to say that the American colonists needed to reach out and find equal representation for themselves on the political side, believing that it would give them some type of leverage to accomplish a general