John Witherspoon's American Revolution

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John Witherspoon's American Revolution
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English
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425

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Cover of: John Witherspoon's American Revolution
John Witherspoon's American Revolution
Feb 01, 2019, Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
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Cover of: John Witherspoon's American Revolution
John Witherspoon's American Revolution
2017
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John Witherspoon's American Revolution
2016, University of North Carolina Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.3029, B
Library of Congress
E302.6.W7 M35 2017, E302.6.W7M35 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 425 pages
Number of pages
425

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27232814M
ISBN 10
146962818X
ISBN 13
9781469628189
LCCN
2016024829
OCLC/WorldCat
951190457

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