Politics, Society, and Religion: The Presbyterian Clergy of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, and the Formation of the Nation.

by Barbara Christine Wingo

Paperback, 1976

Call number

BX8947

Publication

New Orleans, LA: Tulane University, Ph.D. dissertation.

Physical description

iii, 453 p.; 21 cm

Notes

CONTENTS
Introduction.
I. The Presbyterian Minister.
A. The Presbyterian Minister and the Church.
B. The Presbyterian Minister and Education.
2. The Government of God and the Gospel Plan of Salvation.
3. The Moral Sense and the Nature of Virtue.
4. Natural Rights, Liberty and Slavery, and Equality and Inequality.
5. The Origin and Nature of Civil Society and Government.
6. The Civil Laws and the Encouragement of Religion.
A. The Nature of the Civil Laws.
B. Religion, Virtue, and the State.
7 Political Economy.
8. The Law of Nature and Nations.
9. The Era of the American Revolution: A Struggle for Liberty.
10. The Era of the American Revolution: Securing Union, Order, and Liberty.
11. Politics and Infidelity in the Post-Revolutionary Years.
A. The Rise of Infidelity and the French Revolution.
B. The Dangers of Licentiousness, Disunion, Infidelity, and Vice.
12. The Clerical Response to Infidelity and Immorality; and a Revival of Religion.
A. The Course of Providence and Church Unity.
Bibliography, pp. 413-453.

Barcode

010a084077

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