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John Witherspoon's American Revolution (Hardcover)
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John Witherspoon's American Revolution (Hardcover)
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In 1768, John Witherspoon, Presbyterian leader of the
evangelicalPopular party faction in the Scottish Kirk, became the
College of NewJersey's sixth president. At Princeton, he mentored
constitutional architectJames Madison as a New Jersey delegate to
the Continental Congress, hewas the only clergyman to sign the
Declaration of Independence. AlthoughWitherspoon is often thought
to be the chief conduit of moral sense philosophyin America,
Mailer's comprehensive analysis of this founding father'swritings
demonstrates the resilience of his evangelical beliefs.
Witherspoon'sPresbyterian evangelicalism competed with, combined
with, and even supersededthe civic influence of Scottish
Enlightenment thought in the BritishAtlantic world. John
Witherspoon's American Revolution examines the connectionbetween
patriot discourse and long-standing debates-already central to
the1707 Act of Union-about the relationship among piety, moral
philosophy,and political unionism. In Witherspoon's mind, Americans
became differentfrom other British subjects because more of them
had been awakenedto the sin they shared with all people.
Paradoxically, acute consciousness oftheir moral depravity
legitimised their move to independence by making ita concerted
moral action urged by the Holy Spirit. Mailer's exploration
ofWitherspoon's thought and influence suggests that, for the
founders in hiscircle, civic virtue rested on personal religious
awakening.
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