TY - BOOK AU - Mailer,Gideon ED - Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. TI - John Witherspoon's American Revolution SN - 9781469628202 AV - E302.6.W7 M35 2017 U1 - 973.3029B 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Witherspoon, John, KW - United States KW - Declaration of Independence KW - Signers KW - Biography KW - Continental Congress KW - History KW - Princeton University KW - 18th century KW - États-Unis KW - Signataires KW - Biographies KW - fast KW - Declaration of Independence (United States) KW - Presbyterian Church KW - Clergy KW - Statesmen KW - Church and state KW - Hommes d'État KW - Église et État KW - Histoire KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Historical KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - State & Local KW - General KW - Europe KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - Revolution, 1775-1783 KW - 1775-1783 KW - 1775-1783 (Révolution) KW - Politique et gouvernement N1 - "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Enlightenment and religion between Scotland and America -- "A road to distinction very different from that of his more successful companions": Augustinian piety in Witherspoon's Scotland -- "Of local and temporary reformation, local and occasional depravation": Kirk divisions and American prospects at midcentury -- "The bulwark of the religion and liberty of America": Presbyterian revivalism and American higher education before Witherspoon -- "All the conclusions drawn from these principles must be vague": American moral philosophy after Witherspoon -- "When their fathers have fallen asleep": domestic culture, public virtue, and the power of language -- "Every one of them full of the old Cameronian resisting sentiments": piety, Anglo-Scottish union, and American independence -- "How far the magistrate ought to interfere in matters of religion": public faith and the ambiguity of political representation after 1776 -- "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man": John Witherspoon, James Madison, and the American Zion": Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1222248 ER -