Mailer, Gideon creator author. Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture text bibliography biography Electronic books. Electronic books. ncu 2017 2017 monographic eng 1 online resource (viii, 425 pages) : illustrations 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. Gideon Mailer. "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia" --Title page. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Witherspoon, John 1723-1794 United States. Signers Biography United States. Continental Congress History Princeton University History 18th century Presbyterian Church United States Clergy Biography Statesmen United States Biography United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 United States Politics and government 1775-1783 Church and state United States History BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain E302.6.W7 M35 2017 973.3029 B (DLC) 2016024829 (OCoLC)951190457 9781469628202 1469628201 22573/ctt1bnk37m JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1222248 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1222248 YDX 161128 20200709060442.0 ocn965340550 eng