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As a City on a Hill : The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon /
How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronal...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxfordshire :
Princeton University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION "The Most Famous Lay Sermon in All of American History"; PART I TEXT; 1 Writing "A Model of Christian Charity"; 2 "We Shall Be as a City upon a Hill"; 3 A Chosen People; 4 New England in a World of Holy Experiments; 5 Left All Alone in America; 6 Love Is a Bond or Ligament; 7 Moralizing the Market Economy; 8 The Poor and the Boundaries of Obligation; PART II NATION; 9 Inventing Foundations; 10 Mobile Metaphors of Nationalism; 11 From the Top Mast; 12 Constructing a City on a Hill in Africa; 13 The Carnage of God's Chosen Nations.
- PART III ICON14 The Historical Embarrassments of New England; 15 Puritanism in an Existentialist Key; 16 Arguing over the Puritans during the Cold War; 17 Ronald Reagan's Shining City on a Hill; 18 Puritan Foundations of an "Exceptionalist" Nation; 19 Ambivalent Evangelicals; EPILOGUE Disembarking from the Arbella; APPENDIX John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity": A Modern Transcription; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index.