REL 0876 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Button Gwinnett, Joseph Hewes, Jonathan Swift
Document Summary
Denominational breakdown of the signers of the declaration of independence. Of the 56 signers, furthermore, nearly half (26) held academic degrees in theology or biblical studies. Did you know, incidentally, that temple was once home to a school of. Let"s look a bit more closely at some of the founders" religious lives/views. Though nominally members of the episcopal church, franklin (raised congregationalist) and jefferson were at some point in time each deists. Deism belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the. 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind (oxforddictionaries. com) I believe in one god, creator of the universe. That the most acceptable service we render to him, is doing good to his other children.
