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American Covenant

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

American Covenant

By Philip Gorski

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The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American storyWas America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision of the Hebrew prophets and the Western political heritage of civic republicanism. In this eye-opening book, Gorski shows why this civil religious tradition is now in peril--and with it the American expe...Show more

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9780691191676

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Princeton University Press

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2019

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