[no audio] good morning everyone and welcome to museum of the bible. I am the director of museum education. We are delighted you have joined us today for our Speaker Series program, the bible and americas founders. We have three sessions that will be followed by a roundtable discussion this afternoon. Signing witha book our speakers. At museum of the bible, our mission is to engage people with the bible. It has many powerful impact on world culture. It has influenced nations. It has guided debate and shaped pivotal events and inspired views of prominent individuals. The bible is hidden in plain sight. From common expressions that we all use to the music, the arts, and literature. We will explore themes of expand on how the colonies as they moved toward revolution and the founding of our nation, our founders turned to the bible as a source of justification for their political actions. We have three prominent scholars with us today. They will talk to us about how the bible influence the
Think americas most common code of spirituality. And for franklin when you go back to the 18th century, doctrineless moralized christianity was serious intellectual business. It was very serious. Born out of contemporary religious debates and dissatisfaction with his familys puritanism, like many skeptics in the 18th century, franklin was weary of 300 years of fighting over the legacy of the ref reformation. Franklin grew up in a world of intractable conflict between catholics and protestants. But also within and between protestant denominations themselves. What good was christianity, he wondered, if it precipitated pettiness, persecution and violence. Unlike some selfhelp celebrities today, franklin and his cohort of european and american deists reckoned in promoting a ethicsfocused christianity, they were redeeming christianity itself. How successful that redemptive effort was, you all are going to have to decide for yourselves. Could you really have a nonexclusive doctrinely minimal
Discipline, denerve lebe nerve success in this live. Thats what good wants for us. Well, today its easy to dismiss this sort of pot faith because its so often peddled by wealthy media superstars, but it is i think americas most common code of spirituality. And for franklin when you go back to the 18th century, doctrineless moralized christianity was serious intellectual business. It was very serious. Born out of contemporary religious debates and dissatisfaction with his familys puritanism, like many skeptics in the 18th century, franklin was weary of 300 years of fighting over the legacy of the ref reformation. Franklin grew up in a world of intractable conflict between catholics and protestants. But also within and between protestant denominations themselves. What good was christianity, he wondered, if it precipitated pettiness, persecution and violence. Unlike some selfhelp celebrities today, franklin and his cohort of european and american deists reckoned in promoting a ethicsfocus
Did the north conduct the war justly . And you are free to a lot of other work here. Harry wrote a book called upon the altar of nation. Dr. Mcpherson of the nation. Harry stout is a history of American Religion and he called his book a moral history of the civil war. He talked about the just war theory going back to saint augustine. And he talked about the way in which, there are two ways to address the question of a just war. One is the reason for going to war in the first place. He came up with the conclusion that the only legitimate reason the only just reason for going to war was selfdefense. A defensive war is a just war. And the other dimension of just war theory is the conduct of the war. He came out with the idea that the confederates were fighting a just war in the sense that they were defending themselves against invasion. My answer to that would be, who started the war . You could define the union motive for going to war as defensive. Defending the flag, defending the union
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