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The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon

Author : Kevin DeYoung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000044955
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon written by Kevin DeYoung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in unprecedented detail the theological thinking of John Witherspoon during his often overlooked ministerial career in Scotland. In contrast to the arguments made by other historians, it shows that there was considerable continuity of thought between Witherspoon’s Scottish ministry and the second half of his career as one of America’s Founding Fathers. The book argues that Witherspoon cannot be properly understood until he is seen as not only engaged with the Enlightenment, but also firmly grounded in the Calvinist tradition of High to Late Orthodoxy, embedded in the transatlantic Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century, and frustrated by the state of religion in the Scottish Kirk. Alongside the titles of pastor, president, educator, philosopher, should be a new category: John Witherspoon as Reformed apologist. This is a fresh re-examination of the intellectual formation of one of Scotland’s most important churchman from the eighteenth century and one of America’s most influential early figures. The volume will be of keen interest to academics working in Religious History, American Religion, Reformed Theology and Calvinism, as well as Scottish and American history more generally.

John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic

Author : Jeffry H. Morrison
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268087229
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic written by Jeffry H. Morrison and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2003-01-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffry H. Morrison offers readers the first comprehensive look at the political thought and career of John Witherspoon—a Scottish Presbyterian minister and one of America’s most influential and overlooked founding fathers. Witherspoon was an active member of the Continental Congress and was the only clergyman both to sign the Declaration of Independence and to ratify the federal Constitution. During his tenure as president of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, Witherspoon became a mentor to James Madison and influenced many leaders and thinkers of the founding period. He was uniquely positioned at the crossroads of politics, religion, and education during the crucial first decades of the new republic. Morrison locates Witherspoon in the context of early American political thought and charts the various influences on his thinking. This impressive work of scholarship offers a broad treatment of Witherspoon’s constitutionalism, including his contributions to the mediating institutions of religion and education, and to political institutions from the colonial through the early federal periods. This book will be appreciated by anyone with an interest in American political history and thought and in the relation of religion to American politics.

John Witherspoon's American Revolution

Author : Gideon Mailer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469628198
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book John Witherspoon's American Revolution written by Gideon Mailer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.

The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon ...

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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The Works of John Witherspoon ...

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book The Works of John Witherspoon ... written by John Witherspoon and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192537598
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The First Scottish Enlightenment written by Kelsey Jackson Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities—Episcopalians and Catholics—in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.

Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?

Author : John Fea
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611640881
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? written by John Fea and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fea offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. Readers on both sides of the issues will appreciate that this book occupies a middle ground, noting the good points and the less-nuanced arguments of both sides and leading us always back to the primary sources that our shared American history comprises.

Justification and Regeneration

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955859004
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Justification and Regeneration written by John Witherspoon and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthy doctrines of justification and regeneration have always been essential to the Christian's faith and knowledge of God. In the context of 18th century Great Britain and its American Colonies, few treatments were as highly regarded as John Witherspoon's An Essay on Justification and A Practical Treatise on Regeneration, both reprinted in this volume.Providing a careful summary of Witherspoon's life and thought, Kevin DeYoung's introduction and notes are an invaluable guide to these classic works. Justification and Regeneration is both milk and solid food for the Christian-an incisive study of the converted person's standing before God, along with a pastoral exploration of the power of that conversion.

The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon written by John Witherspoon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theology and Spirituality in the Works of Samuel Davies

Author : Joseph C. Harrod
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647573140
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Theology and Spirituality in the Works of Samuel Davies written by Joseph C. Harrod and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his death in 1761 through the American Civil War, Samuel Davies was a recognized name among American Presbyterians, yet for more than a century he has remained far more obscure in discussions of American religion. During the mid-Eighteenth Century, New Side Presbyterian evangelist and preacher Samuel Davies was a pioneer for religious toleration in Colonial America, yet to date no single work has examined Davies' vision for the interior life. Theology and Spirituality in the Works of Samuel Davies is the first monograph-length analysis of Davies' conception of Christian spirituality. After a decade of pastoral ministry to congregations in Virginia, Davies followed eminent American theologian Jonathan Edwards as the fourth President of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University), a tenure cut short by his early death at age thirty-seven. J.C. Harrod examines various aspects of Davies' own personal piety as well as the place that Scripture, conversion, holiness, and the means of grace played in his formulation of Christian piety.

The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men written by John Witherspoon and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

Author : David L. Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199740968
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Faiths of the Founding Fathers written by David L. Holmes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account of the religious culture of the late colonial era, surveying the religious groups in each colony. In particular, he sheds light on the various forms of Deism that flourished in America, highlighting the profound influence this intellectual movement had on the founding generation. Holmes then examines the individual beliefs of a variety of men and women who loom large in our national history. He finds that some, like Martha Washington, Samuel Adams, John Jay, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson's daughters, held orthodox Christian views. But many of the most influential figures, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Jefferson, James and Dolley Madison, and James Monroe, were believers of a different stripe. Respectful of Christianity, they admired the ethics of Jesus, and believed that religion could play a beneficial role in society. But they tended to deny the divinity of Christ, and a few seem to have been agnostic about the very existence of God. Although the founding fathers were religious men, Holmes shows that it was a faith quite unlike the Christianity of today's evangelicals. Holmes concludes by examining the role of religion in the lives of the presidents since World War II and by reflecting on the evangelical resurgence that helped fuel the reelection of George W. Bush. An intriguing look at a neglected aspect of our history, the book will appeal to American history buffs as well as to anyone concerned about the role of religion in American culture.

W. T. Stead

Author : Stewart J. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198832532
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book W. T. Stead written by Stewart J. Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. T. Stead (1849-1912) was a newspaper editor, author, social reformer, advocate for women rights, peace campaigner, spiritualist, and one of the best-known public figures in the late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. W. T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet provides a compelling religious biography of Stead, offering particular attention to his conception of journalism--in an age of growing mass literacy--as a means to communicate religious truth and morality, and his view of the editor's desk as a modern pulpit. Leading scholar, Stewart J. Brown explores how his Nonconformist Conscience and sense of divine calling infused Stead's newspaper crusades-most famously his 'Maiden Tribute' campaign against child prostitution. The biography also examines Stead's growing interest in spiritualism and the occult, as he searched for the evidence of an afterlife that might draw people in a more secular age back to faith. It discusses his imperialism and his belief in the English-speaking peoples of the British Empire and American Republic as God's new chosen people for the spread of civilisation; and it highlights how his growing understanding of other faiths and cultures--but more especially his moral revulsion over the South African War of 1899-1902--brought him to question those beliefs. Finally, it assesses the influence of religious faith on his campaigns for world peace and the arbitration of international disputes.

Pulpit and Nation

Author : Spencer W. McBride
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939577
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Pulpit and Nation written by Spencer W. McBride and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.

The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D., L.L.D., Late President of the College, at Princeton New Jersey

Author : John Rodgers
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021457875
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D., L.L.D., Late President of the College, at Princeton New Jersey written by John Rodgers and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of the works of John Witherspoon (1723-1794) includes sermons, lectures, essays, and other writings by the Scottish-American philosopher and theologian. Witherspoon was a key figure in the American Revolution, and was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. The book also includes a biographical sketch of Witherspoon's life and legacy. A valuable resource for scholars of American history and theology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Practical Treatise of Regeneration

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book A Practical Treatise of Regeneration written by John Witherspoon and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of the REV. John Witherspoon ...

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781295372065
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book The Works of the REV. John Witherspoon ... written by John Witherspoon and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Works Of The Rev. John Witherspoon ...: To Which Is Prefixed An Account Of The Author's Life, In A Sermon Occasioned By His Death, Volume 4; The Works Of The Rev. John Witherspoon ...: To Which Is Prefixed An Account Of The Author's Life, In A Sermon Occasioned By His Death; John Rodgers John Witherspoon, John Rodgers Printed and Published by William W. Woodward, 1801 Religion; Christian Theology; General; Presbyterian Church; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Theology