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Polity ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-376
Author(s):  
Robert Eden
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Moral Vision ◽  
American Founding ◽  
Modern Republicanism

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Gary L. Steward
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
American Founding ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Opening Section ◽  
American Clergy

This opening section introduces the argument of the entire work, namely, that the American clergy who supported political resistance to the British did so in continuity with their own theological tradition. It also surveys a number of different approaches to interpreting the American Revolution. The influence of Bernard Bailyn’s Neo-Whig school of interpretation upon recent scholarship has significantly shaped how the American clergy’s arguments for resistance have been understood. Mark Noll, especially, has influenced how a number of historians have viewed the American clergy’s thought of this period, namely, as co-opted by secular philosophies and radical political views. The nature of political resistance doctrine sheds light on the role that Christianity played in the American founding.

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