Thursday, February 12, 2015

Kidd: "Ben Franklin’s Calvinist Father"

Thomas Kidd tells us about it here. A taste:
Ben Franklin would famously grow skeptical about his fathers’ faith, but in many ways that faith – and its emphasis on the need for public morality and charity – would continue to mark Franklin’s own endeavors as an adult.

19 comments:

JMS said...

Three quick points:
1) Thanks Jon for the post (although the here weblink does not work).
2) I look forward to Dr. Kidd’s new book on Ben Franklin and religion.
3) Another key point in Dr. Kidd’s article was, ”his father’s experience with intolerance, help[ed] to frame Franklin’s own passion for religious liberty.” What Dr. Kidd will probably recount in his book is Franklin’s mother’s Baptist dissenter heritage from the Folgers of Nantucket.

Jonathan Rowe said...

Thanks.

The link should be fixed.

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Acts 2:34 For it was not David who ascended into heaven... (NASB)

Davids body is still in the grave and so is the body of the Virgin Mary.

1 Corinthians 15:50-53 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.....(NASB)

Mary's flesh cannot nor has it inherited the kingdom of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17.....16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first....(NASB)

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1 Corinthians 15:20-23 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming,(NASB)

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