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Weil lectures on American citizenship volume 1971
Publisher
Seabury Press
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Was the United States founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders actually envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision of the Hebrew prophets and the Western political heritage of civic republicanism. In this ambitious book, Gorski shows why this civil religious tradition is now in peril--and with it the American experiment. Gorski...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that "God is on our side" has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The first comprehensive study of the role played by civil religion in U.S. foreign relations over the entire course of the countrys history, McDougall's book explores the deeply infused religious rhetoric that has sustained and driven an otherwise secular...
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