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American Covenant - A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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American Covenant - A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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An authoritative account of the long battle between exclusionary
and inclusive versions of the American story Was the United States
founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither,
argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders
actually 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 ambitious book,
Gorski shows why this civil religious tradition is now in
peril--and with it the American experiment. Gorski traces the
historical development of prophetic republicanism from the Puritan
era to the present day. He provides close readings of thinkers such
as John Winthrop, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du
Bois, and Hannah Arendt, along with insightful portraits of recent
and contemporary religious and political leaders such as Jerry
Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Barack
Obama. Gorski shows how the founders' original vision for America
is threatened by an internecine struggle between two rival
traditions, religious nationalism and radical secularism. Religious
nationalism is a form of militaristic hyperpatriotism that imagines
the United States as a divine instrument in the final showdown
between good and evil. Radical secularists fervently deny the
positive contributions of the Judeo-Christian tradition to the
American project and seek to remove all traces of religious
expression from the public square. Gorski offers an unsparing
critique of both, demonstrating how half a century of culture war
has drowned out the quieter voices of the vital center. American
Covenant makes the compelling case that if we are to rebuild that
vital center, we must recover the civil religious tradition on
which the republic was founded.
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