The Search for Christian America: History’s Echo Essay -- Christianit

In The Search for Christian America historians Mark A. Noll, Nathan O. Hatch and George M. Marsden address the new-made insurgence of desire to return to the American nations Christian Heritage a call to revisit the solid and revered foundations of the colonial period (15). This premise frames the authors two-part thesis first, that America was never a Christian nation and secondly, that the very concept of a Christian nation, after the condemnation of Christ, can be harmful to Christian action and effectiveness at bottom society (17). This assertion, and the evidence which surrounds it, proves that Christians find great value in elements of the founding. When considering the condition behind this assumption the authors suggest umpteen possibilities love of a elysian myth, preaching and identification with the Mosaic prophecy, a city on the knoll mentality, and or nationalistic necessity (108-116). However, these points still with standing, the authors do not richly dev elop the possibility that Protestants doctrinally resonate with the ideals of the founding. The authors do assert that many use the past as a mirror simply reflecting unmatcheds already established bewitchs by a subtle and much unconscious process we pick out . . . those strands which reinforce our point of view (145, 148). This paper will attempt to bring these two concepts together insist that the ideals of the founding, mainly liberty, freedom and individualism, are mirrored in Protestant philosophy itself, providing an echo American Christians can identify with, allowing reverence to be felt up toward the founding and urgency to drive the search for Christian America.Toward the end of the textual matter the authors set out to explain the difficulties and the necessity of openi... ...ce of similar values or familiar echo, only uphold a high regard for our sphere and its heritage. But . . . not, in the words of the Psalmist (1189), put confidence in princes rather o f taking refuge in the Lord (102).BibliographyLuther, Martin. The Appeal to the German Nobility. In Documents of the Christian Church, edited by Henry Bettenson, 192-197. New York Oxford University Press, 1976.--------------------Concerning Christian Liberty. Vol. XXXVI, give away 6. The Harvard Classics. New York P.F. Collier & Son, 190914. Bartleby.com, 2001. www.bartleby.com/36/6/. (accessed Jan. 21, 2012).Calvin, John. John Calvin Institutes of Christian Religion. Translated by Henry Beveridge, Esq. Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics. http//www.reformed.org/master/index.html?mainframe=/books/institutes/. (accessed Jan. 21, 2012).