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White Evangelicals and the New American Exceptionalism of Donald Trump
The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.
by
Abram C. Van Engen
via
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
September 29, 2020
"City on a Hill" and the Making of an American Origin Story
A now-famous Puritan sermon was nothing special in its own day.
by
Abram C. Van Engen
via
Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
February 18, 2020
How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”
The rise and fall of Perry Miller.
by
Abram C. Van Engen
via
Humanities
on
January 2, 2020
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City on a Hill
: A History of American Exceptionalism
Abram C. Van Engen
2020
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When Perry Miller Invented America
In a covenantal nation like the United States, words are the very ligaments that hold the body together, and what words we choose become everything.
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Ed Simon
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
February 5, 2023
Puritanism as a State of Mind
Whatever the “City on a Hill” is, the phrase was not discovered by Kennedy or Reagan.
by
Glen A. Moots
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Law & Liberty
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April 30, 2021
