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The Arc of American Religious Historiography with Respect to War: William Warren Sweet's Pivotal Role in Mediating Neo-Orthodox Critique Robert A
Florida State University Libraries Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations The Graduate School 2012 The Arc of American Religious Historiography with Respect to War: William Warren Sweet's Pivotal Role in Mediating Neo-Orthodox Critique Robert A. Britt-Mills Follow this and additional works at the FSU Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES THE ARC OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORIOGRAPHY WITH RESPECT TO WAR: WILLIAM WARREN SWEET’S PIVOTAL ROLE IN MEDIATING NEO-ORTHODOX CRITIQUE By ROBERT A. BRITT-MILLS A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Religion in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2012 Robert A. Britt-Mills defended this dissertation on April 18, 2012. The members of the supervisory committee were: Amanda Porterfield Professor Directing Dissertation Neil Jumonville University Representative John Corrigan Committee Member John Kelsay Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the dissertation has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT v 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Trends in American Religious Historiography 6 1.2 Early American Histories 8 1.3 Chapter Contents 9 2. WAR JUSTIFIED BY GOD AND NATURAL EVIDENCE: EARLY AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORIANS DESCRIBE PROTESTANT SUPPORT FOR WAR, 1702-1923 14 2.1 Cotton Mather 15 2.2 Baird, Bacon, Bacon, and Mode 18 2.2.1 Robert Baird 18 2.2.2 Leonard Bacon 27 2.2.3 Leonard Woolsey Bacon 33 2.2.4 Peter George Mode 41 2.3 Conclusion 48 3. -
Religion and the American Founding
RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN FOUNDING Ellis Sandoz ∗ I. INTRODUCTION : COMMON GROUND AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES — HOMONOIA (A RISTOTLE ) A. Federalist No. 2 (Jay) Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, . who . have nobly established their general liberty and independence. [I]t appears as if it was the design of Providence that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren . should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties. 1 In justifying union under the Constitution, Publius (Madison) later appeals “to the great principle of self-preservation; to the transcendent law of nature and of nature’s God, which declares that the safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.” 2 Publius thus invokes Aristotle, Cicero, and salus populi , suprema lex esto , as often was also done by John Selden, Sir Edward Coke, and the Whigs in the 17th century constitutional debate. 3 This was understood to be the ultimate ground of all free government and basis for exercise of legitimate authority (not tyranny) over free men—the liber homo of the Magna Carta and English common law. 4 James Madison and the other founders knew and accepted this as a fundamental to their own endeavors. ∗ Hermann Moyse, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, Louisiana State University. -
Regent University Law Review
REGENT UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW VOLUME 20 2007-2008 NUMBER 1 CONTENTS ADDRESSES THE EVOLUTION OF VIRGINIA'S CONSTITUTIONS: A CELEBRATION OF THE RULE OF LAW IN AMERICA Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr. 1 RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN FOUNDING Ellis Sandoz 17 RELIGION AND LIBERTY UNDER LAW AT THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA Harold J. Berman 31 ARTICLES JUSTICE THOMAS AND PARTIAL INCORPORATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE: HEREIN OF STRUCTURAL LIMITATIONS, LIBERTY INTERESTS, AND TAKING INCORPORATION SERIOUSLY Richard F. Duncan 37 REPUBLICANISM AND RELIGION: SOME CONTEXTUAL CONSIDERATIONS Ellis Sandoz 57 REGENT UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Volume 20 2007-2008 Number 1 Editor-in-Chief JOHN LEGG BOARD OF EDITORS Executive Editor JAIRED B. HALL Managing Editor Managing Editor VALERIE H. KUNTZ CORT I. WALKER Articles Editor Articles Editor TIMOTHY L. CREED ZACHARY CUMMINGS Symposium Editor Business Manager JODI LYNN FOSS NATHANIEL L. STORY Notes and Comments Editor Notes and Comments Editor LEO MARVIN LESTINO MELISSA K. DEEM Senior Editor Senior Editor LISA A. BIRON STEPHEN D. CASEY Senior Editor AMBER D. WOOTTON STAFF R. SCOTT ADAMS ROBERTA J. GANTEA TIFFANY N. BARRANS ERIN K. MCCORMICK BRANDON J. CARR VALERIE S. PAYNE LAURA L. DAVIDS JONATHAN PENN ELIZABETH E. FABICK MICHELLE R. RIEL BETHANY FLITON J. SCOTT TALBERT AMANDA K. FREEMAN FACULTY ADVISOR DAVID M. WAGNER EDITORIAL ADVISOR JAMES J. DUANE NOTES DOCKING THE TAIL THAT WAGS THE DOG: WHY CONGRESS SHOULD ABOLISH THE USE OF ACQUITTED CONDUCT AT SENTENCING AND How COURTS SHOULD TREAT ACQUITTED CONDUCT AFTER UNITED STATES V. BOOKER FarnazFarkish 101 GALLOWAY, SPLIT-INTEREST TRUSTS, AND UNDIVIDED PORTIONS: DOES DISALLOWING THE CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION DEDUCTION OVERSTEP LEGISLATIVE INTENT? Valerie H. -
JONATHAN EDWARDS' RHETORIC of HISTORY by Juan Sánchez
IMMEDIATE AND PROGRESSIVE DIVINE AGENCY: JONATHAN EDWARDS’ RHETORIC OF HISTORY by Juan Sánchez Naffziger BA, University of Seville, 2005 MA, University of Seville, 2010 A DISSERTATION Submitted to the faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in English and North American Literature Concentration in American Studies at the University of Seville Seville, Spain April 2015 Acknowledgements The following dissertation would never have been completed without the continued encouragement and invaluable help of professor Ramón Espejo Romero. He has been instrumental (providential, if I may put it in more Edwardsean terms) in bringing about the final result in more ways than the ‘mere’ revision and correction of the text. It was through a scholarship offered by the department he is currently the Director of that I was able to come to the United States, where I have found the time and inspiration to finish my readings and dissertation writing. Had Dr. Espejo not prompted me to go for the ‘American experience’, I probably would never have finished the following study. I certainly would not have been able to include or consult many of the works (recent scholarly studies on Jonathan Edwards, old letters and sermons, etc.) that have been made available to me at UNC Chapel Hill, and which now make up what I believe is a solid bibliography. My most grateful recognition and special thanks, therefore, to this excellent professor of North American literature at the University of Seville, Spain. The love and support of my wife through the last five years, as I locked myself away to read and write during Christmas, Easter and summer holidays, deserve the deepest thanks. -
Heritage of Religious Liberty
ARTICLES A HERITAGE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ARLIN M. ADAMSt AND CHARLES J. EMMERICHtt TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................... 1560 I. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF AMERICAN RELI- GIOUS LIBERTY ................................... 1561 A. Colonial Background ....................... 1562 B. Religious Liberty in the New Nation .......... 1568 C. The ConstitutionalPeriod ................... 1575 II. THE FOUNDERS ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ........... 1582 A. The Enlightenment Separationists............. 1583 B. The Political Centrists ...................... 1587 C. The Pietistic Separationists .................. 1591 D . Summary ................................. 1594 III. THE ANIMATING PRINCIPLES OF THE RELIGION CLAUSES ...................................... 1595 A. The Core Value of Religious Liberty .......... 1598 B. The Principle of Federalism ................. 1604 C. The Principle of Institutional Separation ...... 1615 t Counsel, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia;' Retired Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. B.S. 1941, M.A. 1950, Temple University; J.D. 1947, University of Pennsylvania. This article is a significant expansion of the Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture entitled, "The Religion Clauses-The Past and the Future," delivered by Judge Ad- ams on November 19, 1987, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Order of the Coif and the Law Alumni Society. The authors are presently completing The American Constitutional Heritage of Religious Liberty, a two-volume work on the historical development and judicial con- struction of the first amendment religion clauses. In preparing the article, they grate- fully acknowledge the research assistance of Mr. Fred Beuttler, doctoral student in history at the University of Chicago, and the administrative assistance of Mrs. Helen Kina and Mr. Timothy Longacre. # Research Consultant, University of Pennsylvania Law School; former Execu- tive Director of the Center for Church/State Studies, DePaul University College of Law. -
Seekers No More: Historical Sources of American Voluntaryism
SEEKERS NO MORE: HISTORICAL SOURCES OF AMERICAN VOLUNTARYISM by CHRISTOPHER EDMOND LAWSON A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS in the Department of Religion May 2010 Winston Salem, North Carolina Approved By: Bill Leonard, PhD., Advisor ____________________________________ Examining Committee: Lynn Neal, PhD. ____________________________________ Michele Gillespie, PhD. ____________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................1 CHAPTER 1: REPRESENTATIVE MODELS Voluntaryism Goes Public .....................................................................................11 A New Voluntaryism .............................................................................................14 CHAPTER 2: HISTORIC ROOTS Reformation Roots .................................................................................................25 Luther’s Reformation .............................................................................................26 The Magisterial Reformers ....................................................................................28 The Radical Reformers ..........................................................................................30 The Reformation in England ..................................................................................36 A Bridge to the New World ...................................................................................39 -
Gaustad, Edwin S. Faith of the Founders: Rekgion and the New Nation, 1776- 1826
would assume that the Torah could speak directly to their situation. Few Jewish writers of the time were interested in what Isaiah or David really meant. Scripture did not belong to the past, but to the ever-changing present. The essays in the book demonstrate that the writers of the NT followed the same hermeneutic. Sanders goes on to argue that conservative Christians today derive their hermeneutic from the examples in the Bible. Early Christians put the Prophets rather than the Writings last because they believed that the prophets foretold Christ, that they spoke directly to the situation first-century Christians found themselves in. Following this model today, conservative Christians tend to make creative use of the Scriptures to address social, political, and theological issues of current interest. This leads Sanders to the probing question: "In what sense, then, can modem critical scholarship speak of the New Testament as the fulhent of the Old" (256)? Sanders argues in response that modem scholarship serves as a constraint on adapting Scripture to say whatever anyone thinks it ought to say to believing communities today. Whether the viewpoint in question is liberal or conservative, it needs to be subjected to a critical reading of the Bible as a constraining factor in the discernment of its abiding truth. Its relevance for today must derive from a faithful and natural extension of what it originally meant In conclusion, it seems to me that devotional and creative readings of Scripture will always be the norm in most churches and synagogues. Such readings should not be discouraged as long as they build up individuals and the community in positive ways. -
A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the School of Continuing Studies and of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Partia
POLITICIANS AND PETITIONS: PASSING THE “BILL FOR ESTABLISHING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM” IN VIRGINIA A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of The School of Continuing Studies and of The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies By Eleesha Tucker, B.S. Georgetown University Washington, D.C. November 1, 2013 POLITICIANS AND PETITIONS: PASSING THE “BILL FOR ESTABLISHING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM” IN VIRGINIA Eleesha Tucker, B.S. MALS Mentor: James H. Hershman, Jr., Ph.D. ABSTRACT The defeat of Patrick Henry’s general assessment bill in the Virginia legislature, brought about by the mobilization of dissenters in a petition campaign influenced by James Madison, led to the passage of Thomas Jefferson’s “Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom” in 1786. Jefferson proposed his bill in 1779 as part of an effort to revise the Virginia legal code, seeking to bring state law into alignment with the newly inaugurated revolutionary government. But, the Assembly barely addressed the bill. The power of the established church was too strong and the members postponed the reading of the radical religion bill for a day when the legislative session had already closed. Early on, few religious dissenters lived in colonial Virginia, but the Great Awakening jolted the American colonies, swelling dissenting congregations. The Revolutionary War then ushered in change that emboldened dissenters to reject traditional deference to elites and solicit legal equality. As people across the socio- economic spectrum bore the hardships of the war and shouldered significant responsibility for the support of an infant government, many of the inferior sort thought of themselves as equal to the gentry and sought the legal protection of their right of conscience.