Although he was a brilliant man, Thomas Jefferson was a flawed theologian. Nonetheless, he was not the lifelong skeptic that he is often made out to be. Nor did he believe in keeping Christian influence out of the government or the public square. The book I cowrote with Mark Beliles, …
It would be safe to say that, by the end of his life, Jefferson did not appear to subscribe to all points of the historic Christian faith—although there is evidence he did so earlier in his life. Nonetheless, he had a great interest in the teaching of Christ. As …
There are 2 key points that our book, Doubting Thomas, strives to make: 1) Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic (and even at the end of his life, when it was now available again, he publicly attended and financially supported Trinitarian worship services, while privately holding Unitarian beliefs), and 2) He did …