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| The difference between civil religion and patriotism. |
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| Patriotism is loyalty to one's nation. Civil Religion affirms a purpose and meaning for the national experience. |
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| "America is God's chosen nation." |
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| God made a covenant with the U.S. when it was formed, so that it may be blessed if we love and obey God. |
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| "America will introduce a Golden Age, yet to come." |
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| Because of our covenant with God, our country will experience a better age of rebirth. |
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| How did Martin Luther's theology help lay the foundation for what would become the American Creed? |
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| He proposed the priesthood of all believers, which established equality before God, which carried over into an idea of legal equality. "All men are created equal." |
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| How did reform theology help lay the foundation for what would become the American Creed? |
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| Zwingli, a Christian humanist, was with the renaissance movement to retrogress back to the word of God, and break away from church tradition. Calvin's idea of predestination supported the ultimate sovereignty of God, which disclaimed any power one man claimed over the other. Anabaptists, after being persecuted by the church and the state for re-baptizing adults, brought about a need for the separation of church and state. |
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| What is meant by American Exceptionalism? |
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| Through the people, for the people, by the people. |
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| What was Tyndale's view of National Covenant and how has that influenced American Civil Religion? |
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| Tyndale believed that England's covenant with God was conditional, and was in jeopardy because people were deserting the church and God's commandments. |
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| What was the early goal of the Puritans in England and how did they go about trying to accomplish it? |
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| The early Puritans wanted to reform the church of England from within. They tried to assure this by becoming professors in important colleges and teaching their personal doctrine, using propaganda and the press to advertise their ideas, and were appointed to pulpits to present their beliefs. |
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| How did the Separatists differ from other Puritans? |
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| They gave up on trying to reform the church of England. But after persecution from King James, they left for freedom of Religion, and landed on Plymouth. |
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| What was the dominant Puritan view towards Native Americans? |
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| The Puritans traded, conversed, and even attempted conversion among the natives, but saw the Good works as God working in his providence, and blessing them through the Pagan Indians. |
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| "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." |
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