Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Worlds of Jacob Green and Thomas Bradbury Chandler
Chapter 1 Student
Chapter 2 Pastor
Chapter 3 Father
Chapter 4 Farmer-Miller-Physician-Teacher
Part Two: Revolutionary Thinkers and the Trials of War
Chapter 5 Polemicist
Chapter 6 Revolutionary
Chapter 7 Politician
Chapter 8 Host
Part Three: Reformers on the Home Front
Chapter 9 Crusader
Chapter 10 Dissenter
Chapter 11 Disciplinarian
Epilogue
S. Scott Rohrer is an independent scholar.
“In this well-written and well-argued book, Rohrer has made a
generous contribution to prevailing understandings of religion in
revolutionary America. Others have corrected previous interpreters
by showing that republican political ideology shared common ideas
with Puritan covenant theology, Calvinism, and evangelicalism. But
Rohrer has made one of the most persuasive cases yet in his richly
textured narratives of Green and Chandler. This book is a must read
for anyone who hopes to understand the complex relationships
between Christianity and the American Revolution.”—James P. Byrd
American Historical Review
“This is a fine study that profits much from its design as a study
in contrast of two radicals; its intelligent structure sharpens the
author’s analysis of the nature of opposed religious believers,
social concepts and political views.”—Herman Wellenreuther Journal
of Ecclesiastical History
“An important contribution to the literature on the American
founding. It should be widely read, particularly by those who have
primarily seen the founding through the lives and works of a
handful of Anglican elites.”—Mark David Hall Anglican and Episcopal
History
“Jacob Green, an independent-minded Presbyterian minister, played a
leading role in New Jersey during the tumultuous days of the
American Revolution. S. Scott Rohrer's innovative biography rescues
this intriguing figure from unwarranted obscurity. In so doing, it
also illuminates the strong (but complicated) connections between
religion and politics at the dawn of the American nation. Rohrer's
attention to the closely related biography of a loyalist
Episcopalian (Thomas Bradbury Chandler) only sharpens the portrait
of Green that stands at the heart of this fine study.”—Mark Noll,
Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame,
author of America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham
Lincoln
“There is no more intriguing character among the American
Revolution's pastors than Jacob Green, a fervent patriot,
antislavery advocate, and principled Calvinist. S. Scott Rohrer
brings Green's story to life in this much-needed biography, with
its admirable combination of lucid writing and historical
insight.”—Thomas S. Kidd, Baylor University
“Rohrer has produced an excellent, concise study of one
middle-colony Presbyterian minister whose New Light Calvinism
deeply informed his libertarian and egalitarian inclinations as the
imperial argument between Britain and its American colonies erupted
into revolution in the 1770s.”—John Howard Smith Reviews in
American History
“Jacob Green’s Revolution provides a good case study of how an
early American intellectual dealt with the combined influences of
Enlightenment thought and Calvinism at the time of the American
Revolution.”—Marcus Gallo H-Penn
“This biography is a thought-provoking case study which can be used
to introduce or illustrate the subject of religion at the time of
the American Revolution. It succeeds in bringing the subject to
life with direct, accessible prose.”—Lotfi Ben Rejeb The Canadian
Journal of History
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