One usually writes a new book for one of two reasons: either to treat a topic that no one has covered before; or to correct errors on a topic that others have treated so poorly that someone needs to set the record straight. It was for the second reason that Mark David Hall wrote his new book, Did America Have a Christian Founding?
Hall is no stranger to the study of religion and the American founding. Quite the opposite: he is among America’s foremost experts in the era’s religious and political ideas. In addition to authoring numerous scholarly books and articles in the discipline, he has co-edited a massive collection of documents on religion and church-state relations in early American history.
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