Republicanism. Roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. Enlightened liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things and i mentioned protestant christianity of the third of the headwaters i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism, and we defer that to today. Thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. These are the headwaters of the Missouri River, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by lewis and clark. And in a graphic way i just tried simply to illustrate those three headwaters. Classical republicanism to the left there. Enlightenment liberalism. And protestant christianity. Thats where we are, looking at protestant christianity. This is a representation of one of those camp meetings during the first great awakening of the s
Hello everyone and welcome back. Our second session is the bible during the american founding era, more accessible or authoritative in the bible. It is featured prominently in political culture, saving the founderss political thoughts and rhetoric. The presentation will expand in scripture to answer fundamental political questions and form an emerging constitutional tradition. The professor and school of Public Affairs and American University here at washington dc where he earned the highest faculty award scholars teacher of the year. Religion in American Public life. His most recent book to reading Founding Fathers. I have it myself. I encourage you to get it in and enjoy. Please welcome me. Please join me in welcoming him. Thank you. It is a pleasure and a joy to be here in this magnificent facility. Inremendous resource we have the nation of the capital. It is a real joy for me to share from scholars whom ive learned a great deal over the years. I thank the team for organizing the d
18thcentury political culture. This presentation will examine the founding generations appeal to scripture to answer fundamental political questions, and to form an emerging constitutional tradition. Daniel dries deck is with american university, where he earned american universities highest faculty award. His Research Interests include constitutional law and the intersection of politics, law, and religion in American Life. Book, i encourage you to get it and enjoy it. Dreisdech. Come dr. [applause] prof. Dreisbach thank you very much. It is a real pleasure and a joy to be here today in this magnificent facility in this tremendous resource that we have here in the nations capital. Let me also say it is a real joy for me to share the platform with two scholars from whom i have learned a great deal over the years. I think kay and the team for organizing todays event. This morning, i have going to be drawing on my book, reading bible with the founding fine fathers, andng to the founding o
Simply counting and documenting the founders many references to the bible, i think tells us little except that the bible was a useful resource for this generation of americans. In the book, i try to move beyond the sufimple observation that they frequently cited the bible. That all most goes without saying. I want to move on and examine how the founders used the bible and thousand mhow it may have i their founding project. Which biblical texts appealed to them and why do they think these texts spoke to them in their own time and situation . A study of the founding generations uses of the sacred text must be attentive, must be attentive to the purposes for which the bible was invoked. And, again, not merely to the fact that they read and frequently referenced it. The founders uses of the bible, they use the bible for a variety of reasons and for diverse reasons ranging from the primarily literary to the fro foundly theological. They use the bible as we sometimes they use the bible as we
The founding generations appeal for scripture to answer fundamental political questions and to inform an emerging constitutional tradition. Daniel driesbeck is a professor in the school of Public Affairs at American University here in washington, d. C. , where he earned American Universitys highest faculty award scholar teacher of the year. His Research Interest includes constitutional law and the intersection of politics law and religion in American Public life. His most recent book is reading the bible with the Founding Fathers. I have that one myself and full of sticky tabs and i encourage you to get that and enjoy it. Please join me in welcoming dr. Driesbeck. [ applause ] well, thank you very much. It is a real pleasure and a joy to be here in this magnificent facility in this tremendous resource that we have here now in the nations capital. Let me also say its a real joy for me to share the platform with professors, both of whom i have learned from over the years and i thank kay