God's New Israel
Religious Interpretations of American Destiny
Conrad Cherry
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/2014
Pages: 448
Subject: Religion
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807866580
DESCRIPTION
special destiny has deep roots in the country's past. As both a
stimulus of creative American energy and a source of American
self-righteousness, this notion has long served as a motivating
national 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 as Jonathan Edwards,
Thomas Jefferson, Brigham Young, Chief Seattle, Abraham Lincoln,
Frances Willard, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Ralph Reed, and
Rosemary Radford Ruether. Neither a history of American religious
denominations nor a history of American theology, this book is
instead an illuminating look at how religion has helped shape
Americans' understanding of themselves as a people.
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