The American Revolution and Righteous Community: Selected Sermons of Bishop Robert SmithUniv of South Carolina Press, 2007 - 280 Seiten This selected edition of twenty-seven sermons delivered by Bishop Robert Smith (1732-1801) from the pulpit of Charleston's oldest Episcopal church gives voice to an influential clergyman and his rhetoric in support of a colonial rebellion. Wilbanks has edited Smith's previously unpublished sermons, which were written, delivered, and sometimes repeated during a forty-year career. In his analysis of these sermons, Wilbanks illustrates how a theology of community, civic duty, and national piety led to Smith's advocacy of American independence. Wilbanks suggests that Smith articulated a southern perspective that constituted a radically distinctive justification for the American Revolution, a view drawn from Smith's notion of a righteous community. Contrary to Puritan teachings of individual rights and responsibilities, which often served as a validation for revolution, Smith's call for righteous community also justified the War of Independence. |
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The Americanization of Robert Smith | 3 |
Unlikely Patriot | 19 |
Faith and Good Works | 37 |
Civic Conscience and the Evolution of a Righteous Community | 56 |
PART TWOTHE SERMONS | 71 |
Ruling in the Fear of God | 73 |
On the Importance of Religion to Society | 79 |
Keep All My Commandments Always | 84 |
Love Your Enemies | 147 |
A More Excellent Way | 153 |
Let Your Light Shine before Men | 159 |
The Imitation of Christ | 164 |
According to His Will He Heareth Us | 169 |
Statement on Sullivans Island Bombardment | 174 |
We Bring Our Years to an End as a Tale That Is Told | 176 |
On the Necessity and Demerit of | 182 |
By the Fear of the Lord Men Depart from Evil | 91 |
Let No Man Seek His Own but Every Man Anothers Wealth | 97 |
Love One to Another | 103 |
Love Not the World | 109 |
Be Not Conformed to This World | 115 |
Love Your Enemies | 120 |
I Will Have Mercy and Not Sacrifice | 126 |
ΧΙ The Fruit of the Spirit Is Love Joy and Peace | 131 |
Blessed Are the Merciful | 136 |
Bear Ye One Anothers Burdens | 141 |
His Mercy Endureth Forever | 192 |
A Day Which He Will Judge | 202 |
Overcoming the World | 213 |
The Efficacy of National Virtue for Securing | 219 |
Textual Annotations | 225 |
Original or Manuscript Sources of the Sermons | 249 |
Printed Sources of the Sermons of Robert Smith | 263 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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