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

Mailer, Gideon

 
9781469652207: John Witherspoon's American Revolution: Enlightenment and Religion from the Creation of Britain to the Founding of the United States
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ISBN 10 : 146965220X ISBN 13 : 9781469652207
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2019

Synopsis

In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelical Popular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of New Jersey's sixth president. At Princeton, he mentored constitutional architect James Madison; as a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, he was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence. Although Witherspoon is often thought to be the chief conduit of moral sense philosophy in America, Mailer's comprehensive analysis of this founding father's writings demonstrates the resilience of his evangelical beliefs. Witherspoon's Presbyterian evangelicalism competed with, combined with, and even superseded the civic influence of Scottish Enlightenment thought in the British Atlantic world.

John Witherspoon's American Revolution examines the connection between patriot discourse and long-standing debates -- already central to the 1707 Act of Union -- about the relationship among piety, moral philosophy, and political unionism. In Witherspoon's mind, Americans became different from other British subjects because more of them had been awakened to the sin they shared with all people. Paradoxically, acute consciousness of their moral depravity legitimized their move to independence by making it a concerted moral action urged by the Holy Spirit. Mailer's exploration of Witherspoon's thought and influence suggests that, for the founders in his circle, civic virtue rested on personal religious awakening.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gideon Mailer is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
146965220X
ISBN 13 
9781469652207
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
440
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