Freedom's Holy Light: American Identity and the Future of Theology |
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... INDEPENDENCE and the ✩ LIBERATING GOD * ✩ We have forgotten our revolutionary origins . Too many Americans have been thinking and acting as Tories for so long that our Declaration of Independence has become an unknown document ...
... INDEPENDENCE and the ✩ LIBERATING GOD * ✩ We have forgotten our revolutionary origins . Too many Americans have been thinking and acting as Tories for so long that our Declaration of Independence has become an unknown document ...
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... independence that had been submitted nearly a month earlier by the del- egates from Virginia . 99 Our Declaration of Independence was really an explana- tion to ourselves and to the world of the reasons for the action , of the ...
... independence that had been submitted nearly a month earlier by the del- egates from Virginia . 99 Our Declaration of Independence was really an explana- tion to ourselves and to the world of the reasons for the action , of the ...
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... Independence . It is still a revolutionary leaven in our midst . Lincoln described Jefferson as his mentor and saw ... Independence Hall . ..I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the ...
... Independence . It is still a revolutionary leaven in our midst . Lincoln described Jefferson as his mentor and saw ... Independence Hall . ..I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 3 | 26 |
Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
Copyright | |
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