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Book Political Sermons of the American Founding Era  1730 1805

Download or read book Political Sermons of the American Founding Era 1730 1805 written by Ellis Sandoz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early political culture of the American republic was deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers. Indeed, it was often through the political sermon—the "pulpit of the American Revolution"—that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted. And yet the centrality of religious concerns in the lives of eighteenth-century Americans is largely neglected. This has created a blind spot regarding the fundamental acts of the American founding. Political sermons such as the fifty-five collected in this volume are unique to America, both in kind and in significance. This volume thus fills an important need if the American founding period is to be adequately understood.

Book Political Sermons of the American Founding Era  1730 1805

Download or read book Political Sermons of the American Founding Era 1730 1805 written by Ellis Sandoz and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding

Download or read book The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding written by David W. Hall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that the American founders were more greatly influenced by Calvinism than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinism's insistence on human rulers' tendency to err played a significant role in the founders' prescription of limited government and fed the distinctly American philosophy in which political freedom for citizens is held as the highest value. Hall's timely work countervails many scholars' doubt in the intellectual efficacy of religion by showing that religious teachings have led to such progressive ideals as American democracy and freedom.

Book Political Sermons of the American Founding Era  1730 1805

Download or read book Political Sermons of the American Founding Era 1730 1805 written by Ellis Sandoz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early political culture of the American republic was deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers. Indeed, it was often through the political sermon—the "pulpit of the American Revolution"—that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted. And yet the centrality of religious concerns in the lives of eighteenth-century Americans is largely neglected. This has created a blind spot regarding the fundamental acts of the American founding. Political sermons such as the fifty-five collected in this volume are unique to America, both in kind and in significance. This volume thus fills an important need if the American founding period is to be adequately understood.

Book Election Day Sermons

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  • Author : David Hall
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-07-23
  • ISBN : 9781724214034
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Election Day Sermons written by David Hall and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ELECTION DAY SERMONS calls for a return to an earlier practice: before going to the ballot box, believers should go to the Bible to ascertain guiding principles for electoral matters. Christians should not imagine that political issues lack biblical illumination. These expositions, ranging from the Colonial era to the contemporary, shed light on issues of both civil government and eternal significance. ELECTION DAY SERMONS, past and present, provide light that transcends the partisan or temporal; in fact, these can provide a sure anchor for any election. Besides classic sermons from the founding era by Samuel Langdon, Charles Chauncy, Samuel Miller, and Samuel McClintock, this book also includes a classic sermon by James H. Thornwell, a fictional dialogue between the Devil and George III, along with modern sermons by Peter Lillback, George Grant, Terry Johnson, David Hall and others. This recent edition is newly typeset and revised from earlier works.

Book Representation in the American Revolution

Download or read book Representation in the American Revolution written by Gordon S. Wood and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's most celebrated historians, the Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon S. Wood, comes an early work whose relevance is undiminished. Originally published in 1969, now revised and with a new preface, Representation in the American Revolution examines the ways in which a government is created and how, in the face of great difficulties as well as great possibilities, its citizens are represented. Written immediately after the completion of Wood's Bancroft Award-winning The Creation of the American Republic, this book elaborates on issues also explored in that landmark work. The subject is one that lies at the heart of any discussion of democracy. Establishing a proper method of representation was a goal and measure of the American Revolution, or as Thomas Jefferson said in 1776, "the whole object of the present controversy." A fine example of political and constitutional history, this timeless little book will serve as an excellent introduction to issues of representation for students in the fields of political science, as well as history and law.

Book Father of Liberty

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  • Author : J. Patrick Mullins
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2017-06-23
  • ISBN : 0700624481
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Father of Liberty written by J. Patrick Mullins and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jonathan Mayhew (1720–1766) was, according to John Adams, a "transcendental genius . . . who threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of the country in 1761, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor till his death." He was also, J. Patrick Mullins contends, the most politically influential clergyman in eighteenth-century America and the intellectual progenitor of the American Revolution in New England. Father of Liberty is the first book to fully explore Mayhew's political thought and activism, understood within the context of his personal experiences and intellectual influences, and of the cultural developments and political events of his time. Analyzing and assessing his contributions to eighteenth-century New England political culture, the book demonstrates Mayhew's critical contribution to the intellectual origins of the American Revolution. As pastor of the Congregationalist West Church in Boston, Mayhew championed the principles of natural rights, constitutionalism, and resistance to tyranny in press and pulpit from 1750 to 1766. He did more than any other clergyman to prepare New England for disobedience to British authority in the 1760s‑and should, Mullins argues, be counted alongside such framers and fomenters of revolutionary thought as James Otis, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams. Though many commentators from John Adams on down have acknowledged his importance as a popularizer of Whig political principles, Father of Liberty is the first extended, in-depth examination of Mayhew's political writings, as well as the cultural process by which he engaged with the public and disseminated those principles. As such, even as the book restores a key figure to his place in American intellectual and political history, it illuminates the meaning of the Revolution as a political and constitutional conflict informed by the religious and political ideas of the British Enlightenment.

Book Death and Deliverance

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  • Author : Michael Burleigh
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1994-10-27
  • ISBN : 9780521477697
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Death and Deliverance written by Michael Burleigh and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1994-10-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale study in English of the Nazis' so-called 'euthanasia' programme in which over 200,000 people perished.

Book The Political Theory of the American Founding

Download or read book The Political Theory of the American Founding written by Thomas G. West and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete overview of the Founders' natural rights theory and its policy implications.

Book A Culture of Teaching

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  • Author : Rebecca W. Bushnell
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780801483561
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book A Culture of Teaching written by Rebecca W. Bushnell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pedagogical manuals strongly reminiscent of gardening guides, the scholar was seen as both a pliant vine and a force of nature.

Book Balancing Acts

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  • Author : Terry A. Cooney
  • Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Balancing Acts written by Terry A. Cooney and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyzes the intellectual, social, political, and cultural tensions in the American 1930s. The study is comprehensive, drawing on the philosophy of John Dewey, Edmund Wilson, and others grappling with the role of democracy in a changing world; the tension between individualism and the increase of interventionist government; the ways in which cinema sought to deal with social and cultural conflicts; the balance between assimilation of native Americans and recognition of their separate culture; the early years of civil rights agitation; the rise of radio; the popularity of jazz and of American composers such as Copland and Gershwin; and much more.

Book The Patriot Preachers of the American Revolution

Download or read book The Patriot Preachers of the American Revolution written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals  1789 1861

Download or read book Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals 1789 1861 written by Adam L. Tate and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861, Adam L. Tate discusses the nature of southern conservative thought between 1789 and 1861 by examining six conservatives whose lives and careers spanned the antebellum period: John Randolph of Roanoke, John Taylor of Caroline, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, William Gilmore Simms, Joseph Glover Baldwin, and Johnson Jones Hooper. Tate contends that southern conservatism derived its distinctive characteristics from its acceptance of aspects of John Locke's political theory as it was articulated during the American Revolution. Locke argued that the state and society were two entities that could be reformed and manipulated by men. Showing that most southern conservative intellectuals accepted Locke's premise regarding separation of state and society, Tate examines both the political views and social vision of the six conservatives surveyed. He pays special attention to how these conservatives dealt with states' rights, republicanism, slavery, sectionalism, and religion, as well as western expansion and migration. Tate maintains that while southern conservatives forged a common political tradition based on Old Republican interpretations of the Constitution, they did not create a unified tradition of social thought. Even though most of them desired a cohesive southern intellectual movement, as well as a homogenous southern culture, their disagreements over the good society prevented them from creating a common southern social vision to accompany their states' rights political tradition.

Book The New England Pulpit and the American Revolution

Download or read book The New England Pulpit and the American Revolution written by Alice Mary Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Title page  Its Early Development  1460 1510

Download or read book The Title page Its Early Development 1460 1510 written by Margaret McFadden Smith and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late medieval manuscript's opening page was often ornamentally magnificent; however, this approach of announcing a text was not to be the title-page model for the printed book. The introduction of the printing press created the opportunity for a new way to open a book - a page devoted to its title and its producer. Several stages of the title-page's development are described in detail here, with illustrations from The British Library: the blank page, the label-title, the label-title-plus-woodcut and/or printer's mark, and the decorative border. This is the first book dealing with the early development of the title-page since A.W. Pollard's Last Words on the subject, published in 1891. Co-published with The British Library.