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... Testament images were images of a nation or of some purified remnant thereof , these Old Testament images seemed particularly appropriate for use under American circumstances . What is being claimed here is that the ef- fective loss of ...
... Testament images were images of a nation or of some purified remnant thereof , these Old Testament images seemed particularly appropriate for use under American circumstances . What is being claimed here is that the ef- fective loss of ...
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... Testament for the use of the Indians , unem- barrassed with matters of fact or faith beyond the level of their comprehensions " [ Roche 1964 , 19 ] . To what degree did Jefferson in his later years give up an earlier sense of ...
... Testament for the use of the Indians , unem- barrassed with matters of fact or faith beyond the level of their comprehensions " [ Roche 1964 , 19 ] . To what degree did Jefferson in his later years give up an earlier sense of ...
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... Testament peo- ple of God . Thus was begun a curious compensatory move- ment of shifting the biblical images of mission and destiny onto the back of the emerging American nation in spite of the paradox that the federal union was ...
... Testament peo- ple of God . Thus was begun a curious compensatory move- ment of shifting the biblical images of mission and destiny onto the back of the emerging American nation in spite of the paradox that the federal union was ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 3 | 26 |
Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
Copyright | |
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