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Author : Varnum Lansing Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000145180
Author : Varnum Lansing Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : United States
ISBN : UCD:31175009686166
Author : L. Gordon Tait
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664501338
Presbyterian minister John Witherspoon was a key figure, politically and religiously, in the formative years of the United States. In this fresh account of Witherspoon's thought, L. Gordon Tait focuses on Witherspoon's piety--the way Witherspoon believed that the Christian faith should take visible and practical form in ministry, politics, and everyday obedience and devotion. The Piety of John Witherspoon is filled with photographs from Witherspoon's life, and Tait's comprehensive treatment of Witherspoon makes a significant contribution to the understanding of his impact on church, education, and society.
Author : Varnum Lansing Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112065502954
Author : Jeffry H. Morrison
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268087227
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.
Author : Gideon Mailer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469628196
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.
Author : Kevin DeYoung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000044959
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.
Author : Varnum Lansing Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:558172945
Author : Evan Morrison Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Burlington County (N.J.)
ISBN : UGA:32108031945713
Author : John Frelinghuysen Hageman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081788584
Author : Robert K. Durkee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691210445
The definitive single-volume compendium of all things Princeton The New Princeton Companion is the ultimate reference book on Princeton University’s history and traditions, personalities and key events, and defining characteristics and idiosyncrasies. Robert Durkee brings a unique insider’s perspective to the school’s dramatic transformation over the past five decades, showing how it has become more multicultural, multiracial, and multinational, all the while advancing its distinctive academic mission. Featuring more than 400 entries presented alphabetically, this wide-ranging collection covers topics from academic departments, cultural resources, and student organizations, hoaxes, and pranks to athletic teams, the town of Princeton, and university presidents. There are entries on coeducation, women, people of color, traditionally underrepresented groups, the diversification of campus iconography, and the protest activity that helped to usher in many of these changes. This marvelous compendium also includes annotated maps tracing the growth of the campus over more than two and a half centuries, lists ranging from prizewinners of many kinds to Olympic medalists, and an illustrated calendar that highlights something that happened in Princeton’s history on every day of the year. Now completely updated, revised, and expanded from the classic 1978 edition, The New Princeton Companion tells you virtually everything there is to know about this remarkable institution of higher learning, revealing what it stands for, what it aspires to, and how it evolved from a tiny colonial college to one of the most acclaimed research universities in the world.
Author : Daniel L. Dreisbach,Mark D. Hall,Jeffry H. Morrison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742580466
'In God We Trust?' The separation of church and state is a widely contested topic in the American political arena. Whether for or against, debaters frequently base their arguments in the Constitution and the principles of the American founding. However, Americans' perception of the founding has narrowed greatly over the years, focusing on a handful of eminent statesmen. By exploring the work of nine founding fathers, including often overlooked figures like John Carroll and George Mason, The Founders on God and Government provides a more complete picture of America's origins. The contributors, all noted scholars, examine the lives of individual founders and investigate the relationship between their religious beliefs and political thought. Bringing together original documents and analytical essays, this book is an excellent addition to the library of literature on the founding, and sheds new light on religion's contributions to American civic culture.
Author : Thomas P. Miller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809334674
Considered the first significant teacher of rhetoric in America, John Witherspoon also introduced Scottish moral philosophy to this country and as president of Princeton University reformed the curriculum to give emphasis to both studies. He was an active pamphleteer on religious and political issues and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Editor Thomas P. Miller argues that Witherspoon’s career exemplifies the Ciceronian ideal, and the eight selections Miller presents from the 1802 American edition of the Works corroborate that claim. This paperback edition includes a new preface by the editor that surveys the scholarship published on Witherspoon over the past twenty-five years and discusses how Miller’s own perspective on Witherspoon has changed during that time.
Author : David LaRochelle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735230187
A little boy's mother won't let him have a dog. Dogs are too messy and too loud. But she says he can have a dragon for a pet - if he can find one. Enter the coolest - but naughtiest - pet ever. The dragon is messier and louder than any dog. And he will not leave. How will the boy ever get a dog now?
Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5GLJ
