Nature's God by Matthew Stewart
The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
A revisionist intellectual history that traces how the American Republic’s founders drew on radical Enlightenment and deist ideas to create a political order grounded in natural law and secular reason; it argues that many leading framers privately embraced skeptical, materialist philosophies even as public rhetoric invoked Christianity, and shows how those heretical currents shaped key institutions, constitutional principles, and the nation’s paradoxical mix of religious language and secular governance.
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- 2014
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