A Letter To The Right Hon Gg Occasioned By His Publication Of The Speech He Made In The House Of Commons On The Motion For Expelling Mr Wilkes To Which Is Added A Letter On The Public Conduct Of Mr Wilkes First Published In The Political Register November 1 1768 By John Almon With An Appendix

Author : Gary L. Steward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197565352
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Justifying Revolution written by Gary L. Steward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work explores the patriot clergymen's arguments for the legitimacy of political resistance to the British in the early stages of the American Revolution. It reconstructs the historical and theological background of the colonial clergymen, showing the continued impact that Stuart absolutism and Reformed resistance theory had on their political theology. As a corrective to previous scholarship, this work argues that the American clergymen's rationale for political resistance in the eighteenth century developed in general continuity with a broad strand of Protestant thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The arguments of Jonathan Mayhew and John Witherspoon are highlighted, along with a wide range of Whig clergyman on both sides of the Atlantic. The agreement that many British clergymen had with their colonial counterparts challenges the view that the American Revolution emerged from distinctly American modes of thought"--