TY - BOOK AU - Rodgers,Daniel T. TI - As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon SN - 9780691181592 AV - HN57 .R634 2018 U1 - 309.173 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Cities and towns KW - United States KW - History KW - City and town life KW - Sociology, Urban KW - HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) KW - bisacsh KW - A Model of Christian Charity KW - Abolitionism KW - African Americans KW - Alexis de Tocqueville KW - American exceptionalism KW - American nationalism KW - American studies KW - Americans KW - Anne Hutchinson KW - Annexation KW - Arbella KW - Atlantic World KW - Barack Obama KW - Bourgeoisie KW - British America KW - Calvinism KW - Capitalism KW - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences KW - Chosen people KW - Chris Christie KW - Christianity KW - City on a Hill KW - City upon a Hill KW - Civilization KW - Colonization KW - Debt KW - Donald Trump KW - Economic Life KW - Emigration KW - England KW - Exceptionalism KW - Existentialism KW - Frederick Jackson Turner KW - Generosity KW - George W. Bush KW - God KW - Great power KW - Historian KW - Imperialism KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Injunction KW - John Calvin KW - John L. O'Sullivan KW - John Winthrop KW - Laborer KW - Liberia KW - Literature KW - Manifest destiny KW - Martin Luther King, Jr KW - Massachusetts Bay Colony KW - Massachusetts Historical Society KW - Nationalism KW - New England KW - New Israel KW - New Nation (United States) KW - Old Testament KW - Patriotism KW - Perry Miller KW - Pessimism KW - Piety KW - Political culture KW - Politics KW - Polity KW - Poor relief KW - Princeton University Press KW - Protestantism KW - Puritans KW - Quakers KW - Radicalism (historical) KW - Republican National Convention KW - Rhetoric KW - Righteousness KW - Ronald Reagan KW - Samuel Eliot Morison KW - Scrutiny KW - Seminar KW - Sermon KW - Shareholder KW - Slavery in the United States KW - Slavery KW - Society of Jesus KW - Soviet Union KW - Speechwriter KW - Stanford University KW - Suggestion KW - Tax KW - Theocracy KW - Theology KW - Thomas Paine KW - Usury KW - Vernon Louis Parrington KW - Wealth KW - White-Jacket KW - William Lloyd Garrison KW - Woodrow Wilson KW - Works of mercy KW - World War I KW - World War II KW - Writing N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction. “ The Most Famous Lay Sermon in All of American History --; PART I. Text --; Chapter 1. Writing “A Model of Christian Charity” --; Chapter 2. “ We Shall Be as a City upon a Hill” --; Chapter 3. A Chosen People --; Chapter 4. New England in a World of Holy Experiments --; Chapter 5. Left All Alone in Amer i ca --; Chapter 6. Love Is a Bond or Ligament --; Chapter 7. Moralizing the Market Economy --; Chapter 8. The Poor and the Bound aries of Obligation --; PART II. Nation --; Chapter 9. Inventing Foundations --; Chapter 10. Mobile Metaphors of Nationalism --; Chapter 11. From the Top Mast --; Chapter 12. Constructing a City on a Hill in Africa --; Chapter 13. The Carnage of God’s Chosen Nations --; PART III. Icon --; Chapter 14. The Historical Embarrassments of New England --; Chapter 15. Puritanism in an Existentialist Key --; Chapter 16. Arguing over the Puritans during the Cold War --; Chapter 17. Ronald Reagan’s Shining City on a Hill --; Chapter 18. Puritan Foundations of an “Exceptionalist” Nation --; Chapter 19. Ambivalent Evangelicals --; Epilogue. Disembarking from the Arbella --; Appendix. John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity”: A Modern Transcription --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access N2 - How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill,” John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England’s founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop’s long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop’s text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since.As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity” was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop’s words—from Winthrop’s own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln’s haunting reference to this “almost chosen people,” to the “city on a hill” that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump.As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop’s words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of “timeless” texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691184371?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691184371 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691184371/original ER -