Join us as Harvard Divinity School historian Dr. Catherine Brekus joins host Matthias Walther to explore the American Revolution through the lives of ordinary people, especially the women whose faith and sacrifice helped make it possible.
This episode will take us from just how the Bible saturated everyday life in 1776 and how Christianity and Enlightenment ideas came together to fuel the push for a republic, to the introduction of three "founding mothers" who read their revolutionary activism through Scripture, and the contradictions of the founding. plus, the "Christian nation" debate, and what the Bible offers today.
Guest bio:
Catherine A. Brekus, PhD, is a Professor of History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School.
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