Description: John Witherspoon's American Revolution : Enlightenment and Religion from the Creation of Britain to the Founding of the United States, Paperback by Mailer, Gideon, ISBN 146965220X, ISBN-13 9781469652207, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the evangelical Popular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the College of New Jerseys 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, Mailers comprehensive analysis of this founding fathers writings demonstrates the resilience of his evangelical beliefs. Witherspoons Presbyterian evangelicalism competed with, combined with, and even superseded the civic influence of Scottish Enlightenment thought in the British Atlantic world.
John Witherspoons 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 Witherspoons 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. Mailers exploration of Witherspoons thought and influence suggests that, for the founders in his circle, civic virtue rested on personal religious awakening.
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Book Title: John Witherspoon's American Revolution
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & CULTURE
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Christianity / Presbyterian, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year: 2019
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, History
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Author: Gideon Mailer
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
