Religion and politics in The Shining city: How the “Winthrop message” became the “Reagan message”
- Issue date
- 2009
- Publisher
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Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM
- Source
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Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe 2009, nr 2, s. 219-236.
- ISSN
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1733-2680
- Subjects
- Ekonomia; Kulturoznawstwo; Politologia
- Keywords
- religion; politics; Winthrop; Reagan; Reagan’s civil theology
Abstract
"Oxford historian Godfrey Hodgson began his 2009 debunking of American exceptionalism
with a famous quotation from John Winthrop’s 1630 discourse, A Model
of Christian Charity. Governor Winthrop, attempting to explain his vision for the
Puritan colony of Massachusetts Bay, blended Old Testament passages with Jesus’
Sermon on the Mount and John Calvin’s commentary on Matthew 5:14"(...)
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