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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A Spiritual and Patriotic Primer Forrest Church. THE AMERICAN CREED A BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FORREST CHURCH # THE AMERICAN CREED A Biography of the Declaration of Independence. Front Cover.
A Spiritual and Patriotic Primer Forrest Church. THE AMERICAN CREED A Biography of the Declaration of Independence * FORREST CHURCH # ST. MARTIN's GRIFFINAA NEW YORK To my children, Frank, Nina, Jacob, and Nathan, with love.
... church.” Though the American Creed as fashioned by Thomas Jefferson and perfected by the Continental Congress rests upon a clear separation between church and state, the body politic does have a soul. Chesterton assumed that the ...
... church and state and on religion and politics. Negative images of each other, advocates for a Christian or a secularist vision of America alike misread the script of our founders. Some call for a return to what they proclaim to be our ...
A Spiritual and Patriotic Primer Forrest Church. religious values, this pyramid is uncapped, the foundation (crafted by human arts) completed transcendentally by a luminous, all-seeing eye, an ancient symbol for divinity. On July 4, 1776 ...
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 | |