John Witherspoon's American Revolution : Enlightenment and Religion from the Creation of Britain to the Founding of the United States /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mailer, Gideon (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Witherspoon, John, > 1723-1794.
United States. > Continental Congress.
Princeton University.
États-Unis. > Declaration of Independence > Signataires > Biographies.
Princeton University > History > 18th century.
United States. > Continental Congress > History.
United States. > Declaration of Independence > Signers > Biography.
Declaration of Independence (United States)
Statesmen.
Presbyterian Church > Clergy.
Politics and government.
Church and state.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Église et État > États-Unis > Histoire.
Hommes d'État > États-Unis > Biographies.
Church and state > United States > History.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
Presbyterian Church > United States > Clergy > Biography.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1775-1783.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1775-1783 (Revolution)
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Enlightenment and religion between Scotland and America
  • "A road to distinction very different from that of his more successful companions": Augustinian piety in Witherspoon's Scotland
  • "Of local and temporary reformation, local and occasional depravation": Kirk divisions and American prospects at midcentury
  • "The bulwark of the religion and liberty of America": Presbyterian revivalism and American higher education before Witherspoon
  • "All the conclusions drawn from these principles must be vague": American moral philosophy after Witherspoon
  • "When their fathers have fallen asleep": domestic culture, public virtue, and the power of language
  • "Every one of them full of the old Cameronian resisting sentiments": piety, Anglo-Scottish union, and American independence
  • "How far the magistrate ought to interfere in matters of religion": public faith and the ambiguity of political representation after 1776
  • "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man": John Witherspoon, James Madison, and the American Zion": Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century.

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