Who gets credit for American democracy: Puritans, Deists or both?; Thinkers agree that nation is lucky that founders were biblical

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) | February 12, 2005| | Copyright

Two thinkers began 2005 with simultaneous articles in neo- conservative magazines expressing differing views about who gets credit for laying the foundations of America's distinctive democracy.

Both agreed, however, that the nation is fortunate that those foundations were profoundly biblical.

In the American Jewish Committee's Commentary magazine, Yale professor David Gelernter lauded New England's oft-maligned orthodox Puritans, who dominated pre-Revolutionary religion.

In the interfaith magazine First Things, Fordham University's Cardinal Avery Dulles celebrated the role of the heterodox ...

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