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NEHEMIAS (SCOTUS) AMERICANUS: ENLIGHTENMENT AND RELIGION BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND AMERICA.
- Source :
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Historical Journal . 03/01/2011, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p241-264. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- This review assesses scholarly attempts to synthesize various forms of Scottish philosophy in the context of eighteenth-century America. It suggests potential new directions for the study of Scottish Enlightenment ethical theories on the western side of the Atlantic, and then examines scholarship on a separate and neglected Scottish influence in American thought: an evangelical notion of religious authority that was not opposed to wider incorporation in multi-denominational political unions. The ideological basis for American independence owed much to a tense counterpoise between Scottish moral sense reasoning and Presbyterian evangelicalism, rather than to their singular and starkly binary contributions to colonial American ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0018246X
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Historical Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 57727835
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X10000658