P
Padover, Saul,
149
Paine, Thomas,
209
Parker, Theodore,
185
passion,
201
past, understanding,
203
as corruptor of Jesus' teachings,
180
PBS
Frontline
,
12
peer review,
198
Penn, William,
121
Pennsylvania, abolition of slavery in,
101
The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth
Jefferson's description,
79
Pilgrims,
121
Poland,
xiii
political parties,
142
The Political Progress of Great Britain
(Callender),
16
political writings of Jefferson, religious terms in,
155
Poststructuralism,
xviii
â
xix
,
197
definition of history and,
209
â
210
Powell, Colin,
112
powers reserved to states,
138
practical Christianity,
171
prayer,
191
absence of national proclamations by Jefferson,
137
â
138
Jefferson's call for public day of,
130
,
132
Jefferson denunciation of,
182
â
183
presidential documents, Jefferson's closing for,
136
presidential election of 1800,
143
â
144
Presidents
federal prayer proclamations,
139
sexual indiscretions,
2
Review of the Principal Questions in Morals
,
75
Priestly, Joseph,
119
primary source documentation,
xxiii
,
207
vs. modern experts,
209
Primitivism
Jefferson's writings on,
177
â
178
rejection of church practices,
176
Principia
(Newton),
40
Protestant Episcopal Church, Jefferson support of,
153
â
154
psychohistory,
27
public arena, religious expressions in,
130
Purity, Age of,
119
Q
Quakers,
171
in abolition movement,
172
Queens College,
45
R
racism, in Southern colonies,
88
â
89
Randall, Henry Stephens,
201
Randall, Willard Sterne,
30
Randolph, Edmund Jennings,
142
Randolph, Martha Jefferson,
11
â
12
.
See also
Jefferson, Martha (“Patsy,” daughter)
Randolph, Peyton,
33
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson,
81
Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François (Abbé), Jefferson criticism of,
38
The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures
(Locke),
40
Recorder
(Federalist newspaper),
20
Reformation, Age of,
119
Reid, Thomas,
34
religion, Supreme Court decisions citing Jefferson,
241
n
12
religious beliefs
government protection of,
125
North vs. South,
143
opinions on Jefferson's,
165
religious careers, University of Virginia preferential treatment for those seeking,
56
religious freedom, vs. state established denomination,
156
â
157
religious instruction for Cherokees,
43
Jefferson support for school,
43
learning both sides,
59
at University of Virginia,
53
â
54
religious literature, court cases on permit to hand out,
245
n
69
religious privileges, government role,
123
â
125
representation in Congress, Three-Fifths clause and,
86
Republican Methodists,
152
Republican newspaper in Philadelphia, Callender job with,
16
Republican party,
142
Restoration Movement,
174
Jefferson and,
190
Trinitarian branch,
189
Revelation, Jefferson's opinion on,
180
revelation, law of,
35
Review of the Principal Questions in Morals
(Price),
75
Rhode Island, abolition of slavery in,
101
Rice, John Holt,
50
Roman Catholic church, Jefferson support for construction,
135
Rudy, Willis,
32
Ruffner, William H.,
57
Rush, Benjamin,
xii
,
52
,
83
,
144
,
156
â
157
,
189
,
190
Rutgers University,
45
Ryland, Robert,
57
S
Sabbath, Jefferson's bill for preserving,
131
â
132
St. James Church of Northern Parish (Anglican),
33
Salem, Peter,
88
Sanford, Charles,
73
“Scholars Commission,”
2
Science
,
1
scientific method,
38
Scopes
trial (1925),
204
Scottish Common Sense philosophy,
33
,
34
,
42
,
61
Blackstone and,
35
scriptures.
See
Bible
Second Great Awakening,
156
,
173
,
188
A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity
(Locke),
40
secular government, as Founding Fathers' goal,
xxii
â
xxiii
secular university, claim of University of Virginia as,
31
â
66
secularists
definition,
115
tendencies in history textbooks,
201
Sedgwick, Theodore,
133
Sedition Law, Callender conviction of,
17
Separate Baptists,
172
separation of church and state,
vii
,
115
â
140
,
195
claims of Jefferson as origin,
116
wall of, Jefferson and,
118
â
119
,
125
Serious Considerations on the Election of a President
(Linn),
146
Servetus,
183
sexual morality, of Jefferson,
193
sexual relations, between white masters and black slaves,
220
n
10
Short, William, Jefferson's letter to,
181
â
182
slander, Jefferson reaction to,
25
â
26
slave owner, Jefferson as,
xv
,
91
slavery, Unitarian opposition to,
186
slaves
Constitutional Convention debate over counting in population,
86
â
87
Jefferson efforts for,
108
Jefferson's bill emancipating all slaves born after act passage,
101
Jefferson's payment for crops,
93
law banning importation,
104
representation in court by Jefferson,
100
sexual relations of masters with,
220
n
10
three-fifths vote,
86
Virginia bill banning importation,
101
Small, William,
33
Smith, Adam,
Theory of Moral Sentiments
,
75
Smith, Cotton Mather, criticism of Jefferson,
145
Smith, Edward,
57
Society of the United Brethren,
70
South America, Jefferson on political conditions,
161
South Carolina,
90
South, vs. North, Jefferson's observations,
142
â
143
Southern colonies, racism,
88
â
89
Spafford, Horatio,
160
Spanish America,
161
spellings, modern vs. colonial,
ix
states
abolition of slavery in,
101
powers reserved to,
138
stereotypes,
xxi
Sullivan, John,
212
“A Summary View of the Rights of British America” (Jefferson),
100
supernatural, in Jefferson's writings about Jesus,
80
Synod of Carthage,
64
Synopsis of the Four Evangelists
(Thomson),
79
T
Theory of Moral Sentiments
(Smith),
75
Thomas, William H.B.,
171
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
(Brodie),
28
Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
(Gordon-Reed),
14
â
15
Thomson, Charles,
79
Jefferson identifying as Christian,
189
Thomson's Bible, Jefferson's offer of financial help,
69
three-fifths slave vote,
86
Till, Ferrill,
160