John Witherspoon's American Revolution (eBook)

Gideon Mailer (Autor)

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2016
440 Seiten
Omohundro Institute and Unc Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2819-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Witherspoon's Presbyterian evangelicalism competed with, combined with, and even superseded the civic influence of Scottish Enlightenment thought in the British Atlantic world.John Witherspoon's American Revolution examines the connection between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.

Autor

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Reihe/Serie: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Zusatzinfo: 25 halftones, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Schlagworte: 1707 Act of Union and America • 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland • American moral philosophy • American Revolution in the Middle Colonies • Battle of Princeton • British Atlantic World • Calvinism and the American Founding • Calvinism and the American Revolution • James Madison • James Madison and Religion • John Witherspoon • Jonathan Edwards • New Jersey and the American Revolution • Presbyterians and the American Revolution • Princeton • Religion and the American Enlightenment • Religion and the American Founding • Religion and the American Revolution • Religion and the Declaration of Independence • Scotland and the American Revolution • Scottish Atlantic World • Scottish Enlightenment in America • The American Enlightenment
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2819-8 / 1469628198
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2819-6 / 9781469628196