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		Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730–1805
		In Two Volumes Edited by Ellis Sandoz
		Table of Contents Publication Date: September 1998 5.5 x 8.25. 1,779 pages. Foreword, editor's note to the 1998 edition, editor's note, bibliographic note, chronology, index.

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The early political culture of the American republic was deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers. Indeed, it was often through the political sermon—the "pulpit of the American Revolution"—that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted. And yet the centrality of religious concerns in the lives of eighteenth-century Americans is largely neglected. This has created a blind spot regarding the fundamental acts of the American founding.

Political sermons such as the fifty-five collected in this volume are unique to America, both in kind and in significance. This volume thus fills an important need if the American founding period is to be adequately understood.

Ellis Sandoz is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute at Louisiana State University.