'Is Not This a Paradox?' Public Morality and the Unitarian Defense of State-Supported Religion in Massachusetts, 1806–1833

Autor: Nathan S. Rives
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: The New England Quarterly. 86:232-265
ISSN: 1937-2213
0028-4866
DOI: 10.1162/tneq_a_00277
Popis: The outcome of the legal and constitutional controversy leading to the fall of the state-supported religious establishment in Massachusetts followed a schism in the Congregationalist churches. In that controversy, Unitarians defended religious taxation as an expedient means to advance their desired ends of a public morality rooted in theological liberalism.
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