About this episode
Eric Metaxas interviews Joe Loconte about the Christian influences on America's founding and the misconceptions surrounding it.
Today On The Eric Metaxas Show, Eric talks with Joe Loconte about his new Benjamin Rush documentary, the Christian roots of the American founding, the myth that the Revolution was merely secular and Enlightenment driven, and why figures like Rush, John Adams, and George Washington understood liberty through a biblical lens. They also dig into slavery, religious liberty, Protestant influence, and how modern historians keep getting America’s founding story wrong. Subscribe for clips from The Eric Metaxas Show to hear politics and culture from a Christian perspective.
People in this episode
Host: Eric Metaxas
Guest: Joe Loconte
Topics covered
- Christian roots of American founding
- liberty and biblical perspective
- slavery
- religious liberty
- Protestant influence
- historical narrative
Keywords
- American founding
- Christianity
- liberty
- historical narrative
- slavery
- religious liberty
- Protestantism
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