Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2017
Table of Contents:
“…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 Founding -- "Great things hath God done for his American Zion" : Presbyterian moral philosophy and educational conflict during the nineteenth century.…”