The other day I found myself hoping Collin Hansen would review Thomas Kidd’s highly praised new religious history of the American Revolution: God of Liberty.
Tonight I checked the internets, and . . . boom goes the dynamite.
As expected, a helpful review. Here’s the conclusion:
Kidd’s religious history of the Revolutionary era does not bolster conservative arguments for an explicitly Christian founding of America. The historical record doesn’t allow it. But Kidd’s gift for analyzing complex historical events and explaining them with concise, compelling theses gives us much more to discuss and debate about this fascinating, formative time.
