The Religious Formation Of John Witherspoon

Author : Kevin DeYoung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
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Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000044959

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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 Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : Theology
ISBN : MINN:31951002036584X

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The Works of John Witherspoon ... by John Witherspoon Pdf

Author : John Witherspoon,John Rodgers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : PRNC:32101037622659

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The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon ... by John Witherspoon,John Rodgers Pdf

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

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John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic by Jeffry H. Morrison Pdf

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 : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : MINN:31951D02360821E

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The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon by John Witherspoon Pdf

Author : Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192537591

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The First Scottish Enlightenment by Kelsey Jackson Williams Pdf

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.

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1017837651

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The Works Of John Witherspoon ... by John Witherspoon Pdf

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Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1955859000

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Justification and Regeneration by John Witherspoon Pdf

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.

Author : Gideon Mailer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469628196

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John Witherspoon's American Revolution by Gideon Mailer Pdf

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 : Wendell Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316514733

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Religious Speech and the Quest for Freedoms in the Anglo-American World by Wendell Bird Pdf

Judeo-Christian believers demanded and ultimately brought us six major advances in freedom - speech and press, criminal rights and higher education, abolition and civil rights.

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1804
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : PRNC:32101067017259

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The Works of John Witherspoon, D.D. by John Witherspoon Pdf

Author : John Witherspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : OCLC:768191264

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The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon ... by John Witherspoon Pdf

Author : John Fea
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611640885

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Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? by John Fea Pdf

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.

Author : John Witherspoon,John Rodgers
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1295372061

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The Works of the REV. John Witherspoon ... by John Witherspoon,John Rodgers Pdf

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

Author : Joseph C. Harrod
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647573144

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Theology and Spirituality in the Works of Samuel Davies by Joseph C. Harrod Pdf

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.