John Witherspoon's American Revolution
By: Gideon Mailer
Contributors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9781469628189
Subjects: Politics and government; Church and state; Presbyterian Church; Signers; United States; Princeton University; Clergy; United States. Continental Congress; Statesmen; Biography; History
Notes: "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : enlightenment and religion between Scotland and America; title: "A road to distinction very different from that of his more successful companions" : Augustinian piety in Witherspoon's Scotland; title: "Of local and temporary reformation, local and occasional depravation" : Kirk divisions and American prospects at midcentury; title: "The bulwark of the religion and liberty of America" : Presbyterian revivalism and American higher education before Witherspoon; title: "All the conclusions drawn from these principles must be vague" : American moral philosophy after Witherspoon; title: "When their fathers have fallen asleep" : domestic culture, public virtue, and the power of language; title: "Every one of them full of the old Cameronian resisting sentiments" : piety, Anglo-Scottish union, and American independence; title: "How far the magistrate ought to interfere in matters of religion" : public faith and the ambiguity of political representation after 1776; title: "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man" : John Witherspoon, James Madison, and the American founding; title: "Great things hath God done for his American Zion" : Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century.