Christian America and the Kingdom of God /

" ... Hughes reviews the myth of Christian America from its earliest history in the founding of the republic to the present day. Extensively analyzing the Old and New Testaments, Hughes provides a solid, scripturally-based explanation of the kingdom of God, a kingdom defined by love, peace, pat...

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Main Author: Hughes, Richard T. (Richard Thomas), 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
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245 1 0 |a Christian America and the Kingdom of God /  |c Richard T. Hughes ; foreword by Brian McLaren. 
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505 0 |a Introduction : getting our bearings -- Christian America as God's chosen people -- The witness of the Hebrew Bible -- The witness of the New Testament -- Why do we think of America as a Christian nation? -- A fundamentalist vision for Christian America : from the Scopes trial to George W. Bush. 
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