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

[Chris Doss]

I'm really foggy on what exactly this book is. Is it on the history of the US only, or is there a larger discussion of the Enlightenment?
 Christopher E. Doss
Moscow, Russian Federation 

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From: Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 9:06:57 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin

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?