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1 online resource (x, 410 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Preface to the Revised and Updated Edition; Introduction; PART ONE: THE COLONIAL ERRAND INTO THE WILDERNESS; Good Newes from Virginia; A Modell of Christian Charity; God's Controversy with New England; The Latter-Day Glory Is Probably to Begin in America; PART TWO: REVOLUTION, CONSTITUTION, AND A NEW NATION'S DESTINY; The American States Acting Over the Part of the Children of Israel in the Wilderness; The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; The Republic of the Israelites an Example to the American States; First Inaugural Address |
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PART THREE: WESTWARD THE COURSE OF DESTINYA Plea for the West; Discourses; Oration; Passage to India; The Star of Empire; PART FOUR: CIVIL WAR AND NATIONAL DESTINY; The Battle Set in Array; National Responsibility before God; Second Inaugural Address; Our Obligations to the Dead; PART FIVE: NATIONAL PROGRESS AND WEALTH; Our Country's Place in History; The Tendencies of American Progress; The Relation of Wealth to Morals; A White Life for Two; PART SIX: AMERICAN DESTINY AND WORLD WAR; Patriotism; Presenting the Treaty for Ratification; Annual Message to Congress |
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Anglo-Saxon Destiny and ResponsibilityPART SEVEN: CHALLENGES SINCE MID-CENTURY; America's World Role; Freedom's New Task; The Arrogance of Power; The Black American; Letter from Birmingham Jail; The Ballot or the Bullet; National Morals; Separation of Church and State: ""Christian Nation"" and Other Heresies; Creating a Healed World: Spirituality and Politics; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
The belief that America has been providentially chosen for aspecial destiny has deep roots in the country's past. As both astimulus of creative American energy and a source of Americanself-righteousness, this notion has long served as a motivatingnational mythology. God's New Israel is a collection of thirty-one readings that trace the theme of American destiny under God through major developments in U.S. history. First published in 1971 and now thoroughly updated to reflect contemporary events, it features the words of such prominent and diverse Americans |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Political messianism -- United States.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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RELIGION -- History.
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Philosophy
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Political messianism
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Messianisme.
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United States -- History -- Philosophy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140322
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cherry, Conrad, 1937-
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| ISBN |
080786658X |
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9780807866580 |
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9781469616445 |
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1469616440 |
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