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Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God: Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding
272Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God: Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding
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Both reason and religion have been acknowledged by scholars to have had a profound impacton the foundation and formation of the American regime. But the significance, pervasiveness,and depth of that impact have also been disputed. While many have approached the Americanfounding period with an interest in the influence of Enlightenment reason or Biblical religion,they have often assumed such influences to be exclusive, irreconcilable, or contradictory. Fewscholarly works have sought to study the mutual influence of reason and religion as intertwinedstrands shaping the American historical and political experience at its founding. The purpose ofthe chapters in this volume, authored by a distinguished group of scholars in political science,intellectual history, literature, and philosophy, is to examine how this mutual influence wasmade manifest in the American Founding—especially in the writings, speeches, and thought ofcritical figures (Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Charles Carroll), and in later works by key interpreters ofthe American Founding (Alexis de Tocqueville and Abraham Lincoln).Taken as a whole, then, this volume does not attempt to explain away the potential oppositionbetween religion and reason in the American mind of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, but instead argues that there is a uniquely American perspective and political thoughtthat emerges from this tension. The chapters gathered here, individually and collectively, seekto illuminate the animating affect of this tension on the political rhetoric, thought, and historyof the early American period. By taking seriously and exploring the mutual influence of thesetwo themes in creative tension, rather than seeing them as diametrically opposed or as mutuallyexclusive, this volume thus reveals how the pervasiveness and resonance of Biblical narrativesand religion supported and infused Enlightened political discourse and action at the Founding,thereby articulating the complementarity of reason and religion during this critical period.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781498515467 |
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Publisher: | Lexington Books |
Publication date: | 03/25/2015 |
Pages: | 272 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Dustin Gish teaches ancient, early modern, and American constitutionalism in the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage at the University of Oklahoma. He has published articles, book chapters, review essays, and reviews on topics in the history of political philosophy on the political thought of Homer, Xenophon, Plato, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Jefferson. His work has appeared in The Journal of Politics, History of Political Thought, Perspectives onPolitical Science, Polis, The Review of Politics, and Bryn Mawr Classical Review. He is also contributing co-editor of two volumes on Shakespeare’s political thought (Souls With Longing:Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare and Shakespeare and the Body Politic), and of The Political Thought of Xenophon.Daniel Klinghard is associate professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he teaches American national government. He is the author of The Nationalization of American Political Parties, 1880-1896 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which was awarded the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award by the Political Parties and Organizations section of the American Political Science Association. He has published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Polity, and The Journal of Politics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1The Mutual Influence of Biblical Religion and Enlightenment Reason at the American Founding Dustin Gish and Daniel Klinghard Part I — Reason and Fait Chapter 2: Faiths of Our Modern Fathers: Bacon’s Progressive Hope and Locke’s Liberal Christianity Robert Faulkner Chapter 3: The Radical Enlightenment’s Critique of the American Revolution Jonathan Israel Chapter 4: “Nature’s God” as Deus sive Natura: Spinoza, Jefferson, and the Historical Transmission of the Theological-Political Question Jeffrey Bernstein Part II — Biblical Rhetoric and Republicanism Chapter 5: Benjamin Franklin, Virtue’s Ethics, and “Political Truth” Carla Mulford Chapter 6: Evil Counselors, Corrupt Traitors, and Bad Kings: The Hebrew Bible and Political Critique in Revolutionary America and Beyond Eran Shalev Chapter 7: Biblical Narratives and Enlightenment Methodology: Religion, Reason, and Republicanism in Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia Dustin Gish and Daniel Klinghard Part III — Religion and Politics Chapter 8: Charles Carroll, the American Revolution, and Catholic Identity: Constitutional Discourses in Revolutionary Maryland Maura Farrelly Chapter 9: The Founding Founders’ Disagreements about Church and State Vincent Philip Muñoz Chapter 10: Alexander Hamilton, Religion, and American Conservatism Peter McNamara Part IV — Legacies Chapter 11: In the Valley of the Dry Bones: Lincoln’s Biblical Oratory and the Coming of the Civil War Danilo Petranovich and Matthew Holbreich Chapter 12: Enlightenment Philosophy, Biblical Religion, and Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics Aristide Tessitore Contributors IndexFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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