[lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin

[Jeffrey Fisher]

This is really problematic. Certainly Calvin was The Man for Protestant
religion in America, and certainly Jefferson and others were reacting to
Calvinism, but to simply replace Jefferson with Calvin and Aquinas (whom you
all know I adore) seems to me not unlike replacing Copernicus with Ptolemy.
The analogy may be too big, but the point is I think about right. And
anyway, why not instead of Calvin, Jonathan Edwards?

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote:


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> To be fair, while taking Jefferson out is weird, you can't really
> understand the Enlightenment without including its twin, the Protestant
> Reformation, and without including what both were reacting to, Aquinas.
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> Could Dunbar’s problem be that Jefferson was a Deist?
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> Here’s Dunbar’s replacement standard, which passed: “explain the impact of
> the writings of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu,
> Jean Jacques Rousseau,  Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and Sir William
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