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===America===

===America===

In America the leading Enlightenment thinkers were Rev. [[Jonathan Edwards]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[James Madison]] and [[Alexander Hamilton]]. They read deeply in European thought but did not share the anti-religious views typical of European intellectuals, and included a greater role for tradition, especially the traditional political rights of Englishmen.

In America the leading Enlightenment thinkers were [[Benjamin Franklin]] (who later rejected [[deism]]), [[Thomas Jefferson]] (the least [[Christian]] of the [[Founding Fathers]] and [[James Madison]] (who cited [[Enlightenment]] thinkers for his ''[[Federalist Papers]]'').  Others, such as the Rev. [[Jonathan Edwards]] and [[Alexander Hamilton]], were devout and brilliant Christians who were original in their sermons and writings.

 

American thinkers read deeply in European thought but did not share the anti-religious views typical of European intellectuals.  Instead, American thinkers were able to incorporate and build on Christian [[faith]] more easily than their European counterparts.

==Science==

==Science==