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Commentary: the European background of American freedom.".(response to article by John W. Shepard Jr. in this issue, p. 647)
Educator John W. Shepard, Jr., had recently retired from his position at Seinan Gakuin College in Fukuoka, Japan, and assumed a position in the Baylor history department. He had served under the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention for 35 years. In this essay, writing from the perspective of a historian, he assessed the European background of the political freedom that had developed in the American colonies of Great Britain and was the hallmark of the new nation that emerged from the American Revolution.
His focus was primarily on political freedom and he has little to say about religious freedom per se. Still, in his mind the two were ...
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