Beliles and Newcombe interview
Hear Beliles and Newcombe on http://pointofview.net/show/monday-january-12-2015/
Yearly Archives: 2015
More on the so-called “Jefferson Bible”
Missionaries urged the distribution of whole Bibles to the multitudes of new Indian tribal groups, but a later letter on January 20, 1816, to Peter Wilson (who apparently had urged Jefferson’s support of Bible translations in languages of Indians) explained Jefferson’s reasoning the best: “. . . I think, therefore, …
Review of book in The Economist magazine
Below is an excerpt from The Economist magazine about the book: A new book on Jefferson’s religion, “Doubting Thomas”, steers a middle course. On one hand, it squarely accepts that…Jefferson explicitly renounced many tenets of traditional Christianity. . . . [but] The book’s main author, Mark Beliles,…can’t be accused of refashioning Jefferson to his …