Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the Calvinist world into which Sherman was born and raised. It offers an introduction to Reformed political theory, and sketches its transmission from Europe to America. It considers and rejects the possibility that the founders were significantly influenced by a secularized Lockean liberalism. It concludes by demonstrating, contrary to assertions by many scholars, that Sherman was a serious Calvinist.
Recommended Citation
Hall, Mark David, "Reformed Political Theory in the American Founding (Chapter Two of Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic)" (2012). Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics. 79.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/hist_fac/79
Comments
Originally published as chapter two of Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic by Mark David Hall, print publication date: 2012, print ISBN-13: 9780199929849, published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2013. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199929849.001.0001