God's New Israel Religious Interpretations of American Destiny

Name: God's New Israel Religious Interpretations of American Destiny
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ISBN: 9780807847541

ISBN-10: 0807847542

ISBN-13: 9780807847541

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Conrad Cherry

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The belief that America has been providentially chosen for a 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 Israelis 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.,…

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List price: $42.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/16/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface to the Revised and Updated Edition


Introduction



The Colonial Errand into the Wilderness



Good Newes from Virginia



A Modell of



God's Controversy with New England



The Latter-Day Glory Is Probably to Begin in America



Revolution, Constitution, and a New Nation's Destiny Nicholas Street


The American States Acting Over the Part of the Children of Israel in the Wilderness Ezra Stiles


The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour



The Republic of the Israelites an Example to the American States



First Inaugural Address



Westward the Course of Destiny



A Plea for the West



Discourses Chief Seattle


Oration Walt Whitman


Passage to India



The Star of Empire



Civil War and National Destiny



The Battle Set in



National Responsibility before God



Second Inaugural Address



Our Obligations to the Dead



National Progress and Wealth



Our Country's Place in History



The Tendencies of American Progress



The Relation of Wealth to Morals Frances Willard


A White Life for Two



American Destiny and World War



Patriotism



Presenting the Treaty for Ratification



Annual Message to Congress



Anglo-Saxon Destiny and Responsibility



Challenges since Mid-Century America's World Role



Freedom's New Task



The Arrogance of Power The Black American



Letter from Birmingham Jail Malcolm X


The Ballot or the Bullet National Morals Ralph Reed


Separation of Church and State: "Christian Nation" and Other Heresies Rosemary Radford Ruether


Creating a Healed World: Spirituality and Politics


Index