Author: Samuel BlairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fast-day sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Discourse Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, on Wednesday, May 9th, 1798, Recommended by the President of the United States to be Observed as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, Throughout the United States of North America
Author: Samuel BlairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fast-day sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A Discourse Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, on Wednesday, May 9th, 1798, Recommended by the President of the United States to Be Observed As a Day of Fasting
Author: Samuel BlairPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385814758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Library of Congress W038042 Philadelphia: Published by James Watters, & Co. To be had also of the principal booksellers, 1798. [2],14,17-31, [1]p.; 8°
The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England
Author: William DeLoss LovePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fasts and feasts
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers
Author: Daniel L. DreisbachPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199987939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
A Discourse Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, on Wednesday, May 9th, 1798
Author: History of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston
Author: Hamilton Andrews HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Old South Church is also known as the Third Church of Christ in Boston.
American Bibliography: 1798-1799
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printers
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Philadelphia's Enlightenment, 1740-1800
Author: Nina Reid-MaroneyPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Rather than treating the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment as defining opposites in 18th century American culture, this study argues that the imperatives of the great revival actually shaped the pursuit of enlightened science. Reid-Maroney traces the interwoven histories of the two movements by reconstructing the intellectual world of the Philadelphia circle. Prophets of the Enlightenment had long tried to resolve pressing questions about the limitations of human reason and the sources of our knowledge about the created order of things. The leaders of the Awakening addressed those questions with a new urgency and, in the process, determined the character of the Enlightenment emerging in Philadelphia's celebrated culture of science. Tracing the influence of evangelical sensibility and the development of a Calvinist parallel to the philosophical skepticism of enlightened Scots, Reid-Maroney finds that the Philadelphians' love of science rested on a radical critique of human reason, even while it acknowledged that reason was the dignifying and distinguishing property of human nature. Benjamin Rush alluded to an enlightenment wrought by grace in his image of the Kingdom of Christ and the Empire of Reason. In the post-Revolutionary period, the redemptive Enlightenment of the Philadelphia circle reached its greatest cultural power as a vision for scientific progress in the new republic.
Obedience to the Laws of God, the Sure and Indispensable Defence of Nations
Author: Ashbel GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fast-day sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
A Sermon, Preached in Christ Church and St. Peter's, Philadelphia; On Wednesday, May 9, 1798. Being the Day Appointed by the President, as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, Throughout the United States of North America
Author: James 1758-1841 Cn AbercrombiePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781354449325
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
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