Religious Roots of the First Amendment Dissenting Protestants and the Separation of Church and State

Name: Religious Roots of the First Amendment Dissenting Protestants and the Separation of Church and State
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ISBN: 9780199858361

ISBN-10: 0199858365

ISBN-13: 9780199858361

Edition: 2012

Authors: Nicholas P. Miller

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Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "Enlightenment" and the republican ethos of citizenship. Nicholas Miller does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment and enrich it by recovering its cultural anddiscursive religious contexts - specifically the discourse of Protestant dissent. He argues that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation, an outgrowth of the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, helped promotereligious disestablishment in the early modern West. This movement climaxed in the disestablishment of religion in the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.53" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction: Religion and American Disestablishment



The Monk and the Bard: From Luther's Protest to Milton's Protestant Vision



The Philosopher and the Enthusiast: The Collaboration of John Locke and William Penn



The Puritan Lawyer and the Baptist Preacher: Elisha Williams, Isaac Backus, and American Dissent



Revolutionary and Governor: William Livingston Opposes Anglican Control of King's College



Theologian and Politician: John Witherspoon and James Madison Make a National Principle


Epilogue: Back to the Future of Church and State


Appendix: Significant Works on Religious Freedom and Early America


Notes


Bibliography


Index