- Additional Authors
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 425 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- John Witherspoon's American Revolution (Online)
- Alternative Title
- John Witherspoon's American Revolution (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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 founding" -- "Great things hath God done for his American Zion": Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century.
- LCCN
- 2016024829
- OCLC
- ssj0001746333
- Author
Mailer, Gideon.
- Title
John Witherspoon's American Revolution [electronic resource] / Gideon Mailer.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.