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God's new Israel : religious interpretations of American destiny

A collection of 31 readings tracing the theme of American destiny under God through developments in US history. It features words of prominent Americans such as Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King, and demonstrates how religion shaped Americans' understanding of themselves.
Print Book, English, ©1998
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University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1998
History
x, 410 pages ; 24 cm
9780807824498, 9780807847541, 0807824496, 0807847542
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Good newes from Virginia / Alexander Whitaker
A modell of Christian charity / John Winthrop
God's controversy with New England / Michael Wigglesworth
The latter-day glory is probably to begin in America / Jonathan Edwards
The American states acting over the part of the children of Israel in the wilderness / Nicholas Street
The United States elevated to glory and honour / Ezra Stiles
The republic of the Israelites an example to the American states / Samuel Langdon
First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson
A plea for the west / Lyman Beecher
Discourses / Brigham Young
Oration / Chief Seattle
Passage to India / Walt Whitman
The star of empire / Albert J. Beveridge. The battle set in array / Henry Ward Beecher
National responsibility before God / Benjamin M. Palmer
Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln
Our obligations to the dead / Horace Bushnell
Our country's place in history / Isaac M. Wise
The tendencies of American progress / Henry Ward Beecher
The relation of wealth to morals / William Lawrence
A white life for two / Frances Willard
Patriotism / C.F. Thomas. Presenting the treaty for ratification / Woodrow Wilson
Annual message to Congress / Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anglo-Saxon destiny and responsibility / Reinhold Niebuhr
Freedom's new task / John Foster Dulles
The arrogance of power / J. William Fulbright
Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr
The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X
Separation of church and state: "Christian nation" and other heresies / Ralph Reed
Creating a healed world: spirituality and politics / Rosemary Radford Ruether