Heidelcast: Protestants and Patriots with Dr. D.G. Hart

About this episode

In this episode Dr. Clark welcomes Dr. D.G. Hart, professor of history at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI. In this year of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, they discuss D.G. Hart's new book, Protestants and Patriots: Presbyterians in the Age of Revolution . From Notre Dame Press: D. G. Hart chronicles the transatlantic history of Presbyterianism as a political movement from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, tracing its evolution into a modern, liberal religion. Historians have often described Presbyterianism as a political orientation that leads to rebellion and revolution. D. G. Hart interrogates this assumption, presenting instead a complex narrative…