My Review of Lillback's "George Washington's Sacred Fire" Jonathan Rowe

My Review of Lillback's "George Washington's Sacred Fire"

Jonathan Rowe

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/6/10/114941/942

Peter A. Lillback's George Washington's Sacred Fire, now a top seller on Amazon.com thanks to Glenn Beck's promoting it, attempts to overturn wisdom conventional in scholarly circles that George Washington was a Deist, but rather argues Washington was an orthodox Trinitarian Christian. Lillback is President of Westminster Theological Seminary and a notable figure in the "Christian America" movement.

That "the masses" are buying the book in great numbers is ironic. Most ordinary folks will not, like me, finish or even read a fraction of a 1200 page book with 200 pages of fineprint footnotes. No, this book aims squarely at respected scholars, notably experts on Washington's life, from Paul F. Boller to James Flexner, who claim Washington was some kind of Deist.