God's new Israel : religious interpretations of American destiny /

The belief that America has been providentially chosen for aspecial destiny has deep roots in the country's past. As both astimulus of creative American energy and a source of Americanself-righteousness, this notion has long served as a motivatingnational mythology. God's New Israel is a c...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
مؤلفون آخرون: Cherry, Conrad, 1937-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©1998.
الطبعة:Rev. and updated ed.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807866580_cherry
الوصف
الملخص:The belief that America has been providentially chosen for aspecial destiny has deep roots in the country's past. As both astimulus of creative American energy and a source of Americanself-righteousness, this notion has long served as a motivatingnational mythology. God's New Israel is 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.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (x, 410 pages)
التنسيق:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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