Chapter 17. Ronald Reagan’s Shining City on a Hill

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. “ The Most Famous Lay Sermon in All of American History 1
4. PART I. Text
5. Chapter 1. Writing “A Model of Christian Charity” 13
6. Chapter 2. “ We Shall Be as a City upon a Hill” 31
7. Chapter 3. A Chosen People 44
8. Chapter 4. New England in a World of Holy Experiments 58
9. Chapter 5. Left All Alone in Amer i ca 71
10. Chapter 6. Love Is a Bond or Ligament 86
11. Chapter 7. Moralizing the Market Economy 96
12. Chapter 8. The Poor and the Bound aries of Obligation 107
13. PART II. Nation
14. Chapter 9. Inventing Foundations 123
15. Chapter 10. Mobile Metaphors of Nationalism 133
16. Chapter 11. From the Top Mast 146
17. Chapter 12. Constructing a City on a Hill in Africa 158
18. Chapter 13. The Carnage of God’s Chosen Nations 171
19. PART III. Icon
20. Chapter 14. The Historical Embarrassments of New England 189
21. Chapter 15. Puritanism in an Existentialist Key 204
22. Chapter 16. Arguing over the Puritans during the Cold War 217
23. Chapter 17. Ronald Reagan’s Shining City on a Hill 233
24. Chapter 18. Puritan Foundations of an “Exceptionalist” Nation 247
25. Chapter 19. Ambivalent Evangelicals 264
26. Epilogue. Disembarking from the Arbella 280
27. Appendix. John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity”: A Modern Transcription 289
28. Notes 309
29. Acknowledgments 341
30. Index 345