Ernest Tuveson here shows that the idea of the redemptive mission which has motivated so much of the United States foreign policy is as old as the Republic itself. He traces the development of this element of the American heritage from its beginning as a literal interpretation of biblical prophecies. Pointing to the application of the millenarian ideal to successive stages of American history, notably apocalyptic events like the Civil War, Tuveson illustrates its pervasive cultural influences with examples from the writings of Jonathan Edwards, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Timothy Dwight, and Julia Ward Howe, among others.
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Well documented History of Post-Millenialism in America,
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This is delightful work of the rise of post-millenialism within the growth of America, with its ties to puritanism in Britain and then developed here in the colonies by the likes of Mather and Edwards, et al.Solid writing style pervades this tracement of the concept of America fulfilling end times prophecy concerning a country which would provide the earthly reign of Christ's people and/or beliefs. Classic work which provides much for the student of American Christianity or end times history among this nation.
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Seminal historic study of the apocalyptic world-view at the root of American Protestantism's chiliastic or millenarian "sense of mission" as a Biblical-ordained "Redeemer Nation."
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United States, New York, New England, Old Testament, Manifest Destiny, Mark Twain, New Testament, Jonathan Edwards, Latter-Day Saints, City of Man, New Jerusalem, Presbyterian Quarterly Review, City of the World, Josiah Strong, Princeton Review, The Columbian Muse, Yale College, American Revolution, Church of England, Day of the Lord, Joseph Smith, First World War, Greenfield Hill, History of the Work of Redemption, Horace Bushnell New!
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- Connecticut Yankee by Mark Twain on 5 pages
- The Old Testament by Chilperic Edwards on 4 pages
- A History of the Work of Redemption by Jonathan Edwards on page 27, page 100, and page 201
- Plea For The West, A (The Works Of Lyman Beecher) by Lyman Beecher on page 169, and page 170
- Mark Twain: Great American Short Stories I (Lake Classics) by Prescott Hill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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