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Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1777
Category : Providence and government of God
ISBN : PRNC:32101076874997
Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1776
Category : United States
ISBN : LCCN:17006709
Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1776
Category : Fast day sermons
ISBN : OCLC:837011910
Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1778
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600094998
Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1777
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:78355865
Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1778
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:78081298
Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230441743
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... SERMON XXII. THE DOMINION OF PROVIDENCE OVER THE PASSIONS OF MEN. Preached at Princeton, on the 17th of May 1776, being the General Fast appointed by the Congress through the United Colonies. Dedicated to the Honourable JOHN HANCOCK, Esq- President of the Congress of the United States of America. To which is added, An Address to the Natives of Scotland residing in America. Psal. lxxvi. 10. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee; the retnainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. THERE is not a greater evidence, either of the reality or the power of religion, than a firm belief of God's univerfal presence, and a constant attention to the influence and operation of his providence. It is by this means that the Christian may be faid, in the emphatical Scripture language, " to walk with God, and to endure as seeing him who is invisible." The doctrine of divine providence is very sull and. complete in the facred oracles. It extends not only to things which we may think of great moment, and therefore worthy of notice, but to things the most indifferent and inconsiderable: " Are not two sparrows fold for a farthing, '" fays our Lord, " and one of them falleth not to the ground without your heavenly Father;" nay, " the very hairs of your head are all numbered." It extends not only to things benesicial and falutary, or to the direction and assistance of those who are the servants of the living God, but to things seemingly most hurtsul and destructive, and to persons the most refractory and disobedient. He overrules all his creatures, and all their actions. Thus we are told, that " sire, hail, snow, vapour, and stormy wind, sulsil his word," ia the course of nature; and even so the most impetuous and disorderly passions of men that are under no...
Author : Kevin DeYoung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : John Fea
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812206395
The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian longed for something more—to improve himself in a revolutionary world that was making upward mobility possible. While Fithian is best known for the diary that he wrote in 1773-74 while working as a tutor at Nomini Hall, the Virginia plantation of Robert Carter, this first full biography moves beyond his experience in the Old Dominion to examine his inner life, his experience in the early American backcountry, his love affair with Elizabeth Beatty, and his role as a Revolutionary War chaplain. From the villages of New Jersey, Fithian was able to participate indirectly in the eighteenth-century republic of letters—a transatlantic intellectual community sustained through sociability, print, and the pursuit of mutual improvement. The republic of letters was above all else a rational republic, with little tolerance for those unable to rid themselves of parochial passions. Participation required a commitment to self-improvement that demanded a belief in the Enlightenment values of human potential and social progress. Although Fithian was deeply committed to these values, he constantly struggled to reconcile his quest for a cosmopolitan life with his love of home. As John Fea argues, it was the people, the religious culture, and the very landscape of his "native sod" that continued to hold Fithian's affections and enabled him to live a life worthy of a man of letters.
Author : Nicholas Guyatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139466288
Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: how did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? Tracing the story of American providentialism, this book uncovers the British roots of American religious nationalism before the American Revolution and the extraordinary struggles of white Americans to reconcile their ideas of national mission with the racial diversity of the early republic. Making sense of previously diffuse debates on manifest destiny, millenarianism, and American mission, Providence and the Invention of the United States explains the origins and development of the idea that God has a special plan for America. This conviction supplied the United States with a powerful sense of national purpose, but it also prevented Americans from clearly understanding events and people that could not easily be fitted into the providential scheme.
Author : J. David Hoeveler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742548392
The nine colleges of colonial America confronted the major political currents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while serving as the primary intellectual institutions for Puritanism and the transition to Enlightenment thought. The colleges also confronted the most partisan and divisive cultural movement of the eighteenth century--the Great Awakening. Creating the American Mind is the first book to present a synthetic treatment of the colonial colleges, tracing their role in the intellectual development of early Americans through the Revolution. Distinguished historian J. David Hoeveler focuses on Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, the College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), the College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania), Queen's College (Rutgers), the College of Rhode Island (Brown), and Dartmouth. Hoeveler pays special attention to the collegiate experience of prominent Americans, including Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. Written in clear and engaging prose, Creating the American Mind will be of great value to historians and educators interested in rediscovering the institutions that first fostered American intellectual thought.
Author : Francis D. Cogliano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351894258
Transatlantic studies, especially during the enlightenment period, is of increasing critical interest amongst scholars. But was there an Atlantic Enlightenment? This interdisciplinary collection harnesses the work of some of the most prominent figures in the fields of literature; intellectual, cultural, and social history; geography; and political science to examine the emergence of the Atlantic as one of the key conceptual paradigms of eighteenth century studies. In this spirit, the contributors offer new insights into the conditions that generated a major transatlantic genre of writing; addressing questions of race, political economy, and the transmission of Enlightenment ideas in literary, political, historical, and religious contexts. Whether examining John Witherspoon's evolution from Calvinist theologian to Revolutionary theorist, or Adam Smith's reception in the antebellum United States, the essays remind us that the transatlantic traffic in ideas moved from west to east, from east to west, and in patterns that both complicate and enrich what we thought we knew about the vectors of transmission in this pivotal period.
Author : Katherine Carté
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469662657
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex transatlantic system that bound religious institutions to imperial politics. As Katherine Carte argues, British imperial protestantism proved remarkably effective in advancing both the interests of empire and the cause of religion until the war for American independence disrupted it. That Revolution forced a reassessment of the role of religion in public life on both sides of the Atlantic. Religious communities struggled to reorganize within and across new national borders. Religious leaders recalibrated their relationships to government. If these shifts were more pronounced in the United States than in Britain, the loss of a shared system nonetheless mattered to both nations. Sweeping and explicitly transatlantic, Religion and the American Revolution demonstrates that if religion helped set the terms through which Anglo-Americans encountered the imperial crisis and the violence of war, it likewise set the terms through which both nations could imagine the possibilities of a new world.
Author : Thomas P. Miller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Stephen J. Nichols
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781458755407
Jesus is as American as baseball and apple pie. But how this came to be is a complex story - one that Stephen Nichols tells with care and ease. Beginning with the Puritans, he leads readers through the various cultural epochs of American history, showing at each stage how American notions of Jesus were shaped by the cultural sensibilities of the...
