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The Christian Republicanism Of Timothy Dwight And Jedidiah Morse: The New American Israel And The French Antithesis, Kim Alan Snyder
The Christian Republicanism Of Timothy Dwight And Jedidiah Morse: The New American Israel And The French Antithesis, Kim Alan Snyder
History Theses & Dissertations
Timothy Dwight and Jedidiah Morse were New England Congregational clergymen during America's early national period. Due to their criticisms of the French Revolution and their belief in a fictional plot by the Bavarian Illuminati to destroy religion and civil government both men have been judged by historians as backward-looking, unenlightened reactionaries. The evidence, however, reveals that Dwight and Morse were well educated, devoted to the advancement of learning, and filled with great visions of America as God's New Israel, destined to lead the zest of the world into religious and civil liberty. They espoused the ideology of Christian Republicanism and, …
The Prosecutors Of Socrates And The Political Motive Theory, Thomas Patrick Kelly
The Prosecutors Of Socrates And The Political Motive Theory, Thomas Patrick Kelly
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis presents a critical analysis of the historical roles assigned to the prosecutors of Socrates by modern historians.
Ancient sources relating to the trial and the principles involved, and modern renditions, especially those of John Burnet and A. E. Taylor, originators of the theory that the trial of Socrates was politically motivated, are critically analyzed and examined.
The thesis concludes that the political motive theory is not supported by the evidence on which it relies.
Religion At Bowdoin College: A History, Ernst Christian Helmreich
Religion At Bowdoin College: A History, Ernst Christian Helmreich
Bowdoin Histories
Religion at Bowdoin College: A History (1981), by Ernst Christian Helmreich, considers how people at Bowdoin have perceived religion, how they have felt religion should or should not be realized at the College, and how those views changed over the years.
Louis De Potter And The Belgian Revolution Of 1830, Karen N. Groth
Louis De Potter And The Belgian Revolution Of 1830, Karen N. Groth
Dissertations and Theses
Louis Joseph Antoine De Potter (1786-1.859) was the gifted journalist who served as the catalyst of the successful Belgian revolution of 1830. He has been largely overlooked by students of the nineteenth century revolutionary era. Only one of De Potter's works is known to have been translated into English, his Vie de Scipion de Ricci.
This paper has examined the development of De Potter's thought from his youth up to and including his participation in the Provisional Belgian Government of 1830. For clarity this study has been divided into four chapters.