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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... 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 the voice of Isaiah. “Now it shall spring forth; shall ye not ...
... Puritans spread theirs by doing the same. It is no exaggeration to say that America's cornerstone is religious liberty. From the very outset—even in documents that spring from a different set of primary intentions—one can trace the ...
... Puritans (who came to Boston ten years later and set the tone for New England society) felt no such compunction. Yet they too laid the foundation for the American Creed. Congregational polity—a priesthood of all believers—leads directly ...
... Puritans failed to make these connections themselves, their primary commitments to congregational polity and their ... Puritans this status in no way compromised his spiritual authority. Foreshadowing the development of America's ...
... Puritan aspirations might one day give rise to a nation dedicated to the celebration of religious pluralism. But faith ... Puritans restricted member-ship in the one body to those who embraced their own faith's strictures (“the messianic ...
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 | |