A Sermon preached ... on the day of General Election, May 25th, 1808
Title | A Sermon preached ... on the day of General Election, May 25th, 1808 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas ALLEN (Pastor of the Church in Pittsfield, U.S.) |
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Pages | 28 |
Release | 1808 |
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A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency, James Sullivan, Esq., Governor
Title | A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency, James Sullivan, Esq., Governor PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Allen |
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Pages | 19 |
Release | 1808 |
Genre | Election sermons |
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A Sermon, Preached Before His Excellency, James Sullivan, Esq., Governor, His Honor, Levi Lincoln Esq., Lieutenant-governor, the Honourable Council, and Both Branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, on the Day of General Election, May 25, 1808
Title | A Sermon, Preached Before His Excellency, James Sullivan, Esq., Governor, His Honor, Levi Lincoln Esq., Lieutenant-governor, the Honourable Council, and Both Branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, on the Day of General Election, May 25, 1808 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Allen |
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Pages | 19 |
Release | 1808 |
Genre | Election sermons |
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Society
Title | Journal of the Proceedings of the Society PDF eBook |
Author | Anthology Society (Boston, Mass.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Monthly anthology, and Boston review |
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A Republic of Righteousness
Title | A Republic of Righteousness PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan D Sassi |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2001-10-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0198029756 |
This book examines the debate over the connection between religion and public life in society during the fifty years following the American Revolution. Sassi challenges the conventional wisdom, finding an essential continuity to the period's public Christianity, whereas most previous studies have seen this period as one in which the nation's cultural paradigm shifted from republicanism to liberal individualism. Focusing on the Congregational clergy of New England, he demonstrates that throughout this period there were Americans concerned with their corporate destiny, retaining a commitment to constructing a righteous community and assessing the cosmic meaning of the American experiment.
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
Title | Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel L. Dreisbach |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199987939 |
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Shedding new light on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Daniel Dreisbach analyzes the founders' diverse use of scripture, ranging from the literary to the theological. He shows that they looked to the Bible for insights on human nature, civic virtue, political authority, and the rights and duties of citizens, as well as for political and legal models to emulate. They quoted scripture to authorize civil resistance, to invoke divine blessings for righteous nations, and to provide the language of liberty that would be appropriated by patriotic Americans. Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers broaches the perennial question of whether the American founding was, to some extent, informed by religious--specifically Christian--ideas. In the sense that the founding generation were members of a biblically literate society that placed the Bible at the center of culture and discourse, the answer to that question is clearly "yes." Ignoring the Bible's influence on the founders, Dreisbach warns, produces a distorted image of the American political experiment, and of the concept of self-government on which America is built.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Title | Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum PDF eBook |
Author | British Library |
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Pages | 888 |
Release | 1946 |
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