The Pulpit of the American Revolution
Author: John Wingate Thornton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-08-03
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 3375107552
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Author: John Wingate Thornton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-08-03
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 3375107552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Author: John Wingate Thornton
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alice Mary Baldwin
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781936577330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Spencer W. McBride
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2017-01-12
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0813939577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s conversion to Christianity in 1817, this book reveals the ways in which the clergy’s political activism—and early Americans’ general use of religious language and symbols in their political discourse—expanded and evolved to become an integral piece in the invention of an American national identity. Offering a fresh examination of some of the key junctures in the development of the American political system—the Revolution, the ratification debates of 1787–88, and the formation of political parties in the 1790s—McBride shows how religious arguments, sentiments, and motivations were subtly interwoven with political ones in the creation of the early American republic. Ultimately, Pulpit and Nation reveals that while religious expression was common in the political culture of the Revolutionary era, it was as much the calculated design of ambitious men seeking power as it was the natural outgrowth of a devoutly religious people.
Author: John Wingate Thornton
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 556
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Moore
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Wingate Thornton
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Published: 2018-05-14
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9783337536145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Patrick Mullins
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2017-06-23
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0700624481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Jonathan Mayhew (1720–1766) was, according to John Adams, a "transcendental genius . . . who threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of the country in 1761, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor till his death." He was also, J. Patrick Mullins contends, the most politically influential clergyman in eighteenth-century America and the intellectual progenitor of the American Revolution in New England. Father of Liberty is the first book to fully explore Mayhew's political thought and activism, understood within the context of his personal experiences and intellectual influences, and of the cultural developments and political events of his time. Analyzing and assessing his contributions to eighteenth-century New England political culture, the book demonstrates Mayhew's critical contribution to the intellectual origins of the American Revolution. As pastor of the Congregationalist West Church in Boston, Mayhew championed the principles of natural rights, constitutionalism, and resistance to tyranny in press and pulpit from 1750 to 1766. He did more than any other clergyman to prepare New England for disobedience to British authority in the 1760s‑and should, Mullins argues, be counted alongside such framers and fomenters of revolutionary thought as James Otis, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams. Though many commentators from John Adams on down have acknowledged his importance as a popularizer of Whig political principles, Father of Liberty is the first extended, in-depth examination of Mayhew's political writings, as well as the cultural process by which he engaged with the public and disseminated those principles. As such, even as the book restores a key figure to his place in American intellectual and political history, it illuminates the meaning of the Revolution as a political and constitutional conflict informed by the religious and political ideas of the British Enlightenment.
Author: Gideon Mailer
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2016-11-23
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1469628198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Emily Michelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0674075293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKItalian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region’s violent religious wars made the future uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.