The American Creed: A Spiritual and Patriotic PrimerWhat makes us all Americans--whatever our differences--is adherence to a creed, a creed based upon cornerstone truths the founders believed "self-evident." From the earliest days, the survival of the new republic hinged not merely upon the expression of these grand principles of liberty and equality but upon their spiritual underpinnings. Freedom and faith were intertwined. America, as a foreign observer once put it, is a nation with the soul of a church. |
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... biblical in cadence and theme. It is also thoroughly American. Through the sacrifices of its citizens and at the time of its greatest trial, the nation could finally attain its moral promise. A century later—forty years ago—within sight ...
... Bible, together with a script for redemption. The Pilgrims' and Puritans' migration to America was a self- conscious “errand into the wilderness,” motivated by a hunger for religious freedom. “Behold I will do a new thing,” God sang in ...
... biblical one. “The city on a hill that cannot be hid” is Jesus' description of the messianic community from his Sermon on the Mount. But Winthrop also drew his blueprint from the church envisioned by St. Paul, a sacred community of one ...
... biblical administrator). Because of his Puritan temperament, revisionists have since excoriated Winthrop for being selfrighteous and judgmental, even “un-American.” This epithet is unfair. By stressing charity in human relations ...
... biblical context from which this proclamation is taken. The twentyfifth chapter of Leviticus contains Yahweh's declaration to Moses on Mount Sinai of the coming “acceptable year of the Lord.” By God's own promise, this intended Jubilee ...
Contents
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS | |
A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM | |
E Pluribus Unum | |
AMERICAS MISSION | |
AMERICAN FUNDAMENTAL | |
THE FOUR FREEDOMS | |
NEW FRONTIERS OLD TRUTHS | |
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL | |
CONCLUSION | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |