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“The political theology of the American founding era was neither Christianity nor deism. The prevailing political theology of the American founding era was theistic rationalism” (2). This is the authors case.

“Theistic rationalism was a hybrid belief system, mixing elements of natural religion, Christianity, and rationalism, with rationalism as a predominant element” (14).

I’m pausing for now. This book hasn’t drawn me in yet & seems many pages away from making its first point. I’ll come back to it later.