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The Piety of John Witherspoon: Pew, Pulpit and Public Forum

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A Scottish pastor is invited to head the college that later will be called Princeton University. His theology is based in traditional Calvinism, but he was touched by the 18th Century Scottish Enlightenment unawares. He was intent on advancing education in the early years of our nation. So many of our early leaders studied with him. As a member of the Continental Congress he was the only clergy to sign the Declaration of Independence. He pushed for the stronger government the Consitutional Convention would envision, so that America could show the rest of the world the way ahead. He did feel that a strong faith would produce strong and dedicated citizens. Is that what we lack today in our confused society?

This book has won a Southern Books Competition Award of Special Recognition for Paperback Cover from the Southeastern Library Association. This award category was created for the year 2000 competition to recognize this cover's aesthetic appeal and design. Congratulations to author L. Gordon Tait, book cover designer Lisa Buckley, and the Geneva Press.

Although I haven't read this book yet, I plan to get it somehow. I am researching family history and this is one of my descendents. I think this is so cool.