Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution (American Political Thought)
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (782 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700624481 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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As Professor Mullins demonstrates with skill and flair, Mayhew obliged the revolutionary generation to consider rather than confront the inconvenient truths of their times: that religious faith and political cause were inextricably matters of individual liberty. Jonathan Mayhew was instrumental in changing popular opinion in pre-Revolution America were not empty words. “Long before the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord, the Reverend Jonathan Mayhew preached a message from his Boston pulpit that powerfully blended a defense of religious liberty with an emerging notion of constitutional resistance to British tyranny. Mayhew’s early death dimmed his visibility to posterity but not to contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic who took to Mayhew’s rationalism and liberalism following the Great A
Patrick Mullins contends, the most politically influential clergyman in eighteenth-century America and the intellectual progenitor of the American Revolution in New England. Though many commentators from John Adams on down have acknowledged his importance as a popularizer of Whig political principles, Father of Liberty is the first extended, in-depth examination of Mayhew’s political writings, as well as the cultural process by which he engaged with the public and disseminated those principles. He did more than any other clergyman to prepare New England for disobedience to British authority in the 1760s—and should, Mullins argues, be counted alongside such framers and fomenters of revolutionary thought as James Otis, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams. Analyzing and assessing his contributions to eighteenth-century New England political culture, the book demonstrates Mayhew’s critical contribution to the intellectual origins of the American Revolution.As pastor of the Congregati
Patrick Mullins is assistant professor of history at Marquette University. . J