Author's Keywords: Voegelin, Timothy Dwight, authoritative present, messianic identity, Enlightenment, millennialism, George Berkeley	Convention All Academic Convention is the premier solution for your association's abstract management solutions needs. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Gamble, Richard. ""The Last and Brightest Empire of Time": Timothy Dwight and the Construction of America as Voegelin's "Authoritative Present," 1771-1787" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210512_index.html>

Gamble, R. M. , 2007-08-30 ""The Last and Brightest Empire of Time": Timothy Dwight and the Construction of America as Voegelin's "Authoritative Present," 1771-1787" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210512_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Timothy Dwight's orations, sermons, and poetry from the 1770s and 1780s reveal his consistent attempt to situate America as the endpoint toward which all of history had been inexorably moving. While drawing on Puritan, millennialist, and other antecedents, Dwight's vision of American destiny also paralleled that offered at the same time in Europe by leading radical Enlightenment figures, such as Turgot, Condorcet, and Richard Price. Dwight's philosophy of history and habits of mind match closely the analysis Eric Voegelin mapped out in his From Enlightenment to Revolution, in particular, Voegelin's concept of the "authoritative present." This paper applies Voegelin's vocabulary and analytical tools to one important part of America's self-understanding at the critical time of the Founding. The paper also explores the implications of America's tendency to conceive of itself as history's "authoritative present." Is such a national self-definition compatible with constitutionalism and a modest republic?

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