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To a creator, a supreme judge, or Divine Providence. He also highlights the importance of the great awaken awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. It was organized by the j madison memorial fellowship foundation. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning. The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and ....
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 protestan ....
And i certainly felt that way. Q a a sunday night on cspan. A panel of historians answered audience questions about the bibles influence on the american founders. They talked about the founders views on religious liberty, democracy and the nation as a republic. This discussion was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible in washington. Its an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. I hope you enjoyed your time at lunch and at the museum. If youll please take a moment to silence your cell phone or device you might have with you. Please join me in giving our speakers a round of applause. They have done an outstanding job. Today has been an interesting look at how the bible influenced the people and our nations founding. So im going to thank you to those that have submitted questions. Im just going to randomly go through these and for our speakers. Well start with dr. Kid. Franklin quoted, god helps those who help themselves. Could you put that in the context of your remarks about fr ....
[applause] and we do today must to renew our resolve to protect our godgiven rights from all those eager to take them away. We gather today in the heartland of america to take a stand against religious bigotry and intolerance. Brave heroes who have lost their livelihoods and positions of honor. This rally is a chance to stand thatreedom and the ideas rights dont come from black robed lawyers are from politicians in washington. They come from god. [applause] it is this understanding, this revelation that has made america an exceptional nation and indeed the exceptional nation in the history of the world. [applause] now is the time for each of us to ask for the courage of daniel and esther, and jeremiah. About freedom loving people of faith versus those who want to silence our faith to take away our freedom. History shows us that in order to gain control of the people, you must first destroy their moral fiber, destroy their faith. Extremistsares the the most is that there are more of us ....
Fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning. The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and ....