- Collection:
- Columbia Theological Seminary Manuscript Collection
- Title:
- Religion in State Education
- Creator:
- Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921
- Date of Original:
- 1915
- Subject:
- Christianity
Church and state
Civil religion
Contests
Education
Education and state
Essays
Founding Fathers of the United States
God (Christianity)--Attributes
Natural theology
Public schools
Religion in the public schools
Revelation
States' rights (American politics)
Supernatural
Tetragrammaton
Truth
Butler, Joseph, 1692-1752
Hillel, active 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.
Jesus Christ
Springer, D. W. (Durand William), 1866-1943
National Education Association of the United States
United States--Constitution
United States--Declaration of Independence
Ann Arbor (Mich.)
California
Rome
Southern States
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
- Medium:
- essays
typescripts - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Two typescript documents by Samuel Spahr Laws written on occasion of a competitive essay contest sponsored by the National Education Association concerning the integration of religion into public education. Laws begins his essay by defining the difference between natural religion and Christianity as a revealed religion. He then reviews the relationship between the religion and state as expressed in the Roman Empire during the early rise of Christianity and at the time of the founding of the United States. From this he argues that natural religion should be the religion of the state and suggests means for integrating natural religion into state schools. The first document is the submitted copy (with typescript copy of the announcement letter to patrons, written by D. W. Springer) and the second document is a draft of the essay containing manuscript annotations by Laws, 1915.
Institution: C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives, John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary - Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17323coll7/id/6511
- IIIF manifest:
- https://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p17323coll7:6511/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 93 pages
- Original Collection:
- S. S. Laws papers, 1878-1917
- Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
