John Witherspoon
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Oct 28, 2026
Kevin DeYoungGUEST
the gospel ministry.
Kevin DeYoungGUEST
And frankly, I just don't have that many expertises outside of Bible, theology, gospel, and maybe John Witherspoon.
Albert MohlerHOST
Which also happens to be your job.
Albert MohlerHOST
It's my job, yeah.
Richard LimGUEST
It's not like they had one club, right? And they came from a Christian context.
Richard LimGUEST
And if you look at John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration, he was a founder.
Richard LimGUEST
He was a clergyman who explicitly talked about Christ as the Savior and putting salvation in Christ.
Richard LimGUEST
He's clearly not a deist.
Richard LimGUEST
I mean, it's so easy to break the deist thesis.
Richard LimGUEST
And I think Christians need to understand that this is just like, any Christian that thinks that the founders were deists, I just have an honest question to ask.
Richard LimGUEST
Have you read their letters? Have you actually taken the time to not listen to what someone said about them, but read, look up what John Witherspoon said about Christianity and tell me whether he was a deist or not.
Richard LimGUEST
Look at what Patrick Henry said about Christianity and look up Washington Circular in 1783 and and tell me that George Washington was a deist when he talks about the divine author being Jesus.
Timothy S. GoegleinGUEST
I, I'm glad you raised that because this exhibition does a very good job, uh, you know, in this, uh, in this moment.
Timothy S. GoegleinGUEST
we learn about the definitively Orthodox Christians, people like John Witherspoon, and I won't list all of them.
Timothy S. GoegleinGUEST
But in the founding generation, in America 250 at the beginning, let's just say that we've spent an inordinate amount of time in popular culture learning about the cynics, the skeptics, the agnostics, the atheists, etc.
Timothy S. GoegleinGUEST
I'm eager to be clear, and the Museum of the Bible makes this very clear, that the large number of very faithful men in our founding is absolutely overwhelming.
Kevin DeYoungGUEST
I was such, 2016, what happened? The Lester City Foxes won, and now they've been relegated multiple times since then.
Kevin DeYoungGUEST
So I did my PhD at the University of Leicester on John Witherspoon, who is a Scottish Presbyterian pastor who then immigrated to the United States and joined the revolution.
Kevin DeYoungGUEST
Sorry, but he's famous in America for being the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Kevin DeYoungGUEST
So that's what I did.
Jeff KellickHOST
Hutchison's moral philosophy reached Pennsylvania through the school of his student, Francis Allison, whose pupils included three signers of the Declaration.
Jeff KellickHOST
John Witherspoon came from Scotland to preside over the College of New Jersey at Princeton in 1768 and lectured on moral philosophy in a course long read as Following Hutchison.
Jeff KellickHOST
James Madison graduated under him in 1771, and James Wilson was educated at St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.
Jeff KellickHOST
That is an intellectual climate, not a chain to any cause of the Declaration.
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America's undeniable foundation of faith.
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As president of the College of New Jersey, now known as Princeton University, John Witherspoon taught 10 cabinet members, 60 members of Congress, 13 governors, three Supreme Court justices, Vice President Aaron Burr, and President James Madison.
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As a Presbyterian minister, Witherspoon was the only active clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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He was a gifted preacher and writer who let his faith direct his political activism, often voicing the link between earthly liberty and spiritual liberty.
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One Nation Under God, America's undeniable foundation of faith.
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As president of the College of New Jersey, now known as Princeton University, John Witherspoon taught 10 cabinet members, 60 members of Congress, 13 governors, three Supreme Court justices, Vice President Aaron Burr, and President James Madison.
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As a Presbyterian minister, Witherspoon was the only active clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence.
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He was a gifted preacher and writer who let his faith direct his political activism, often voicing the link between earthly liberty and spiritual liberty.
ColinHOST
And if you look at it that way, that you have this blending of common sense realism versus skepticism, that new philosophy that was being pushed in universities across Europe, it found its way over to the colonies.
ColinHOST
And I guess the question more germane to the foggy dew would be like, how did this philosophy of common sense realism, how did it land in the colonies, and why is it germane to the American founding? And I guess the person that I would bring into this conversation would be a man named John Witherspoon.
ColinHOST
And John Witherspoon is a name you've probably never heard before, but Witherspoon was born in Scotland in 1723.
ColinHOST
He was the son of a Protestant minister.
ColinHOST
Witherspoon attended the University of Edinburgh and got a doctorate at St. Andrews.
ColinHOST
This guy Witherspoon was immersed in common sense realism.
ColinHOST
That was the fountainhead of it.
ColinHOST
So here's John Witherspoon.
Thomas E. EvansHOST
If you were here during Lent, you heard those stories.
Thomas E. EvansHOST
John Witherspoon, a Scottish Presbyterian minister who came and brought the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Reformation It was Francis Hutchinson, the Scottish philosopher, who taught many of the ideals that Witherspoon passed on to his students at Princeton University, amongst them James Madison, when he taught him the principles which are now embedded in our Constitution.
Thomas E. EvansHOST
So even though by no means are all of us Scottish, We are also not all of us Jewish, but we do all share the blessings of their courageous crossings undergirded by the word of God.
Thomas E. EvansHOST
And there is one more crossing that we must not forget.
Dean BowenHOST
This is why the founding fathers were adamant that they did not want us to have a democracy.
Dean BowenHOST
John Witherspoon is a signer of the Declaration.
Dean BowenHOST
He said this about democracy.
Dean BowenHOST
Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the Department of State.
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