Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822. The Search for a Christian Enlightenment in the Era of Samuel Stanhope Smith.

by Mark A. Noll

Hardcover, 1989

Call number

LD4609 .N65 1989

Publication

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Physical description

xvi, 340 p.; 25 cm

Notes

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments.
List of Abbreviations and Short Titles.

I. Introduction.
2. Prologue, 1770: War, Heroism, Ruins.
3. John Witherspoon Comes to Princeton: Promoting the Interests of the Redeemer's Kingdom.
4. The Legacy of Witherspoon: One of the Great Men of the Age.
5. Samuel Stanhope Smith, 1751-1781: Labouring up the Hill of Science and Virtue.
6. Princeton and the Nation, 1781-1794: A New Era in the Annals of Time.
7. The College and Stanhope Smith, 1781-1794: Human Nature Susceptible of System.
8. Transition and Continuity, 1795-1801: Glowing with Patriotism, as well as Pure Religion.
9. Fire and Rebuilding, 1802-1806: An Asylum in This Day of Lamentable Depravity.
10. The Republican Christian Enlightenment of Samuel Stanhope Smith: A Just Philosophy Grounded on Fact and Experience.
11. Student Rebellion and New Trustees, 1807: Pillars of the Social Fabric Crumbling into Dust.
12. The Domination of Ministers, 1808-1812: Not the Understanding, but the Heart.
13. Ashbel Green and the New Regime: What Its Pious Founders Intended It to Be.
14. Conclusion: Retrogression, the New Nation, and a Republican Christian Enlightenment.

Appendix A. Number of Graduates, 1748-1830.
Appendix B. Trustee Genealogies.
Appendix C. Number, Attendance, Participation: Board Meetings, 1779-1812.

Bibliography, with a Prosopography of the Princeton Circle.
--Manuscripts.
--The Princeton Circle.
--Essay on Secondary Authorities.
Index.

Barcode

020a125000

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