[Rezension von: Van Engen, Abram C., 1981-, City on a hill]
The sermon from which this book takes its title is one of the most important texts in American history. Or is it? Abram Van Engen shows that “A Model of Christian Charity,” the now-famous sermon by John Winthrop, has not always been regarded as a seminal text. In demonstrating that the sermon was lo...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 344-347 |
| Review of: | City on a hill (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020) (Kabala, James S.)
City on a hill (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020) (Kabala, James S.) City on a Hill (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020) (Kabala, James S.) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ American Exceptionalism
/ Puritans
/ Winthrop, John 1588-1649
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | The sermon from which this book takes its title is one of the most important texts in American history. Or is it? Abram Van Engen shows that “A Model of Christian Charity,” the now-famous sermon by John Winthrop, has not always been regarded as a seminal text. In demonstrating that the sermon was lost for a long time and neglected for even longer, Van Engen covers ground explored by Richard Gamble in In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth (2012) and Daniel Rodgers in As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon (2018). But Van Engen’s subtitle indicates his own particular emphasis. The book concentrates on the development of a particular interpretation of U.S. history. The sermon itself actually has more of a supporting than a starring role. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csab018 |