"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
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