[PDF] City On A Hill eBook

Author : Abram C. Van Engen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0300252315

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A fresh, original history of America’s national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase “City on a Hill,” from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthrop’s speech, its changing status throughout time, and its use in modern politics, Van Engen asks us to reevaluate our national narratives. He tells the story of curators, librarians, collectors, archivists, antiquarians, and often anonymous figures who emphasized the role of the Pilgrims and Puritans in American history, paving the way for the saving and sanctifying of a single sermon. This sermon’s rags-to-riches rise reveals the way national stories take shape and shows us how those tales continue to influence competing visions of the country—the many different meanings of America that emerge from its literary past.

Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0674987993

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From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals.

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0691210551

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For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop's text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since. As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop's words--from Winthrop's own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln's haunting reference to this "almost chosen people," to the "city on a hill" that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump. As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop's words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of "timeless" texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.

Author : Philip Graham Ryken
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1575675056

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We are now living in post-Christian times, when Christianity no longer is the prevailing influence on the mind and heart of our culture. But we cannot compromise. More than ever before, it is imperative that Christians understand and embrace the biblical pattern for the church. Philip Graham Ryken knows that the changing face of America makes the need for the church to remain steadfast even more important. City on a Hill will provide readers with a deeper understanding of how to live for Christ in the twenty-first century: go back to the model set out in the first century. Sure to be an encouragement and challenge to anyone concerned about the effectiveness of the church today.

Author : James Traub
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN :

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Traub relates the daily struggles of men and women trying to gain an education against the odds at the City College of New York, telling the story of the college's difficult present against the backdrop of its 150-year history. Students battle the cultural and economic forces that perpetuate inner-city poverty while the college that produced eight Nobel Laureates now tries to prepare survivors of the public school system for college-level work. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Mark Hall
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1433682311

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City on the Hill helps kids learn and celebrate their role in the diversity of the body of Christ. Based on the hit song by the same title from Casting Crowns.

Author : Richard M. Gamble
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1441162321

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The American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond.