Prodigals and Pilgrims
The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800
- Hardback
- ISBN:9780521237192
- Publication date:May 1982
- 362pages
- Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.63kg
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The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.