City upon a Hill How Sermons Changed the Course of American History

Name: City upon a Hill How Sermons Changed the Course of American History
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ISBN: 9780060854270

ISBN-10: 0060854278

ISBN-13: 9780060854270

Edition: 2007

Authors: Larry Witham

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Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation's greatest orators. America's Puritan founder John Winthrop preached about "a city upon a hill", a phrase echoed more than three centuries later by President Ronald Reagan in his farewell address to the nation; Abraham Lincoln's two greatest speeches have been called "sermons on the mount"; and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" oration influenced a generation and changed history. From colonial times to the present, the sermon has motivated Americans to fight wars as well as fight for peace. Mighty speeches have called for the abolition of slavery and for the prohibition of alcohol. They have stirred…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/7/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

LARRY WITHAM is a veteran journalist and is the author of twelve books, including Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America and Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion.



Introduction : of words and nations



Robert Hunt's library : the sermon comes to America



The three covenants : preaching on order and liberty



Jeremiah in America : times of troubles and revivals



Pulpits of sedition : the rhetoric of revolution



The movement west : frontiers of sect, class, and sex



Dreams of utopia : preaching American identity



Words of freedom : exhorting slavery and abolition



The god of battles : interpreting victory and defeat



Reconstructing America : progress, Darwin, and the lost cause



The white city : urban tales and imperial designs



Modern times : a battle over women, booze, and Bibles



Radioland : preaching faith, fear and fun



The American way of life : popular faith in an insecure age



From left to right : promised lands and cities on hills


Conclusion : the "publick religion" : the sermon as four habits of mind