Author: Cathleen Kaveny
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674969383
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good.
Prophecy without Contempt
Author: Cathleen Kaveny
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674969383
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674969383
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good.
The New England Soul
Author: Harry S. Stout
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199890978
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Harry Stout's groundbreaking study of preaching in colonial New England changed the field when it first appeared in 1986. Here, twenty-five years later, is a reissue of Stout's book: a reconstruction of the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes and explained history and society to the New England Puritans for one and a half centuries.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199890978
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Harry Stout's groundbreaking study of preaching in colonial New England changed the field when it first appeared in 1986. Here, twenty-five years later, is a reissue of Stout's book: a reconstruction of the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes and explained history and society to the New England Puritans for one and a half centuries.
The New England Clergy and the American Revolution
Author: Alice Mary Baldwin
Publisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Unvarnished Doctrine
Author: Steven M. Dworetz
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822314707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In The Unvarnished Doctrine, Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Revolution—the ideological character of this event, and, more specifically, the relevance of "America’s Philosopher, the Great Mr. Locke," in this experience. Recent interpretations of the American revolution, particularly those of Bailyn and Pocock, have incorporated an understanding of Locke as the moral apologist of unlimited accumulation and the original ideological crusader for the "spirit of capitalism," a view based largely on the work of theorists Leo Strauss and C. B. Macpherson. Drawing on an examination of sermons and tracts of the New England clergy, Dworetz argues that the colonists themselves did not hold this conception of Locke. Moreover, these ministers found an affinity with the principles of Locke’s theistic liberalism and derived a moral justification for revolution from those principles. The connection between Locke and colonial clergy, Dworetz maintains, constitutes a significant, radicalizing force in American revolutionary thought.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822314707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In The Unvarnished Doctrine, Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Revolution—the ideological character of this event, and, more specifically, the relevance of "America’s Philosopher, the Great Mr. Locke," in this experience. Recent interpretations of the American revolution, particularly those of Bailyn and Pocock, have incorporated an understanding of Locke as the moral apologist of unlimited accumulation and the original ideological crusader for the "spirit of capitalism," a view based largely on the work of theorists Leo Strauss and C. B. Macpherson. Drawing on an examination of sermons and tracts of the New England clergy, Dworetz argues that the colonists themselves did not hold this conception of Locke. Moreover, these ministers found an affinity with the principles of Locke’s theistic liberalism and derived a moral justification for revolution from those principles. The connection between Locke and colonial clergy, Dworetz maintains, constitutes a significant, radicalizing force in American revolutionary thought.
A Republic of Righteousness
Author: Jonathan D Sassi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198029756
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198029756
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
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.
The Character of Political Sermons Preached at the Time of the American Revolution
Author: Harry Price Kerr
Publisher:
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Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A Speaking Aristocracy
Author: Christopher Grasso
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new ways. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut. In New England through the first half of the century, only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century, concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people but rather as a civic conversation of the people.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new ways. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut. In New England through the first half of the century, only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century, concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people but rather as a civic conversation of the people.
Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: John Appleton (M.D.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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