| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy. By Jonathan D. Sassi. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. x, 298 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-512989-X.)

Jonathan D. Sassi's traditional history of ideas examines the civic preaching of New England Congregational clergy from 1783 to 1833. He defines public Christianity as the clergy's 'utterances on the relationship of faith to life in society.' Religious historians, he argues, have concentrated on the public Christianity of the Revolution's 'black regiment' and on the 'social ideology' of antebellum Congregational reformers. Sassi focuses on election sermons and also refers to fast, thanksgiving, Fourth of July, and Forefathers' Day addresses to analyze the clergy's public Christianity during the early republic. Their patriotic, providential, and covenantal language and ideas were part of a continuous body of civic thought that extended from the Revolution to the evangelical era. Religion far more than republicanism shaped that tradition. . . .

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