Myths America Lives By / Edition 1

by Richard T. Hughes

Overview

The dream of restoring primitive Christianity lies close to the core of the identity of some American denominations—-Churches of Christ, Latter-day Saints, some Mennonites, and a variety of Holiness and Pentecostal denominations. But how can a return to ancient Christianity be sustained in a world increasingly driven by modernization? What meaning might such a vision have in the modern world? Twelve distinguished scholars explore these and related questions in this provocative book.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252072208
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	06/15/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Richard T. Hughes is a professor emeritus at both Pepperdine University and Messiah College. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than a dozen books including Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630-1875 and Christian America and the Kingdom of God.
 

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	1
1.	The Myth of the Chosen Nation: The Colonial Period	19
2.	The Myth of Nature's Nation: The Revolutionary Period	45
3.	The Myth of the Christian Nation: The Early National Period	66
4.	The Myth of the Millennial Nation: The Early National Period	91
5.	The Mythic Dimensions of American Capitalism: The Gilded Age	126
6.	The Myth of the Innocent Nation: The Twentieth Century	153
	Conclusion	191
	Index	197