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God’s New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny

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, 1998
ISBN: 9780807824498
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Overview

The belief that America has been providentially chosen for a special destiny has deep roots in the country’s past. As both a stimulus of creative American energy and a source of American self-righteousness, this notion has long served as a motivating national mythology.

God’s New Israel is a collection of thirty-one readings that trace the theme of American destiny under God through major developments in U.S. history. First published in 1971 and now thoroughly updated to reflect contemporary events, it features the words of such prominent and diverse Americans as Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Jefferson, Brigham Young, Chief Seattle, Abraham Lincoln, Frances Willard, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Ralph Reed, and Rosemary Radford Ruether. Neither a history of American religious denominations nor a history of American theology, this book is instead an illuminating look at how religion has helped shape Americans’ understanding of themselves as a people.

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  • Unpacks a collection of thirty-one readings that trace the theme of American destiny.
  • Features the words of such prominent and diverse Americans.
  • Shares how religion has helped shape Americans’ understanding of themselves as a people.

Conrad Cherry is Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. His books include The Theology of Jonathan Edwards and Hurrying Toward Zion.

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  1. Charles Earle Tucker

    Charles Earle Tucker

    1/20/2026

    This argument (of a single national, political or cultural supremacy) is very similar to the types of opposition that the Apostle Paul faced when bringing the reproofs of Christ and God's grace to the highly religious legalistic (fleshly, note) Galatian church (see the end of his letter to them, 6: 12-18). His emphasis was for Grace and salvation alone! He likewise taught his assistant Timothy in 2 Tim. 3:5 that people having "a form of godliness, yet denying its power" should be avoided, warning, "Have nothing to do with such people". Looking at history, even the period of our nation's time of founding in a unique way (just many other movements in history) reveals a spectrum of divisions in the religious doctrines taught presumptuously by men (some quite legalistic). Instead, ALL governments should, with many prayers, be respected by believers, for the fact that God has ordained them ALL in order to reach everyone, even through all of their God-ordained disparities & boundaries (see Acts 17:26-31). We should honor all authorities - even those who may oppose the gospel message. Finally, the only kingdom that is to be truly revered (in the sense of associating it uniquely to God) is that of Jesus the anointed Christ, when He returns to establish it on His earth!
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  2. Ian Carmichael

    Ian Carmichael

    1/17/2026

    Um. Thoroughly updated? Well, yes. In 1998! And a reader edition at that. Still, at a sale price...
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