Ethics

Richard Price

By Ed Brayton

Richard Price, whom most folks have never of, profoundly influenced the American Founding. We blogged about him at American Creation here, here, here and here. His theology, along with Joseph Priestley's, illustrates the kind of "Christianity" that disproportionately appealed to the Founding Fathers. I put Christianity in quotation marks because Price was a Unitarian of the Arian bent (Priestley was a Unitarian of the Socinian bent). And, as you will see when I quote him below, the "orthodox" of the Founding era did not consider that creed to be "real Christianity."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 17, 2009 (boomark / email).