![]() The tendency to reject organized religion in favor of personal spirituality or a direct relationship with God gained prominence at this age in ussia because of widespread disillusionment with the state-supported religion, corruption and hypocrisy of the official clergy. ![]() One of the features of the age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky was the emergence of philosophical and religious thoughts that promoted spirituality without religion. ![]() The chief contributors to the 'contradiction' or 'argument' mentioned above were the ideas about government and public life that Samuel Adams gained from his Puritan heritage and then from his experiences during the revolutionary period the major causes of the American evolution the "Spirit of 76" or the Whig principles the republican ideology stated in the Declaration of Independence the changes in the organization of government from the Articles of Confederation to the U.S.…Ĭompare and contrast their approaches to the question of faith. The first part of this essay analyzes ideological, historical, personal and administrative features of the first American government, and uses these to explain the 'contradiction' existent in American national identity ever since. Political themes of early American politics, the major players, and issues that arose in the political arena of the time with specific reference to Samuel Adams: adical Puritan, by William Fowler, and Founding Brothers: The evolutionary Generation, by Joseph Ellis. ![]()
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