Chosen Nation

Author : Benjamin W. Goossen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691192741

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Chosen Nation by Benjamin W. Goossen Pdf

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the global Mennonite church developed an uneasy relationship with Germany. Despite the religion's origins in the Swiss and Dutch Reformation, as well as its longstanding pacifism, tens of thousands of members embraced militarist German nationalism. Chosen Nation is a sweeping history of this encounter and the debates it sparked among parliaments, dictatorships, and congregations across Eurasia and the Americas. Offering a multifaceted perspective on nationalism's emergence in Europe and around the world, Benjamin Goossen demonstrates how Mennonites' nationalization reflected and reshaped their faith convictions. While some church leaders modified German identity along Mennonite lines, others appropriated nationalism wholesale, advocating a specifically Mennonite version of nationhood. Examining sources from Poland to Paraguay, Goossen shows how patriotic loyalties rose and fell with religious affiliation. Individuals might claim to be German at one moment but Mennonite the next. Some external parties encouraged separatism, as when the Weimar Republic helped establish an autonomous "Mennonite State" in Latin America. Still others treated Mennonites as quintessentially German; under Hitler's Third Reich, entire colonies benefited from racial warfare and genocide in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Whether choosing Germany as a national homeland or identifying as a chosen people, called and elected by God, Mennonites committed to collective action in ways that were intricate, fluid, and always surprising. The first book to place Christianity and diaspora at the heart of nationality studies, Chosen Nation illuminates the rising religious nationalism of our own age.

Author : Braden P. Anderson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610973922

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Christian teaching and modern sensibilities both eschew "nationalism" as an extreme, fanatical form of patriotism, an excessive or disordered form of an otherwise healthy and proper national identity. But what if the problem of nationalism is something much more fundamental? What if nationalism is actually the process leading to national identity in the first place? And what happens when this process entails selectively appropriating and reinterpreting the Christian tradition for the sake of the envisioned nation? This book takes up these questions within the context of American Christian nationalism. Here, the process of interweaving the Christian narrative with American history and myth is examined in depth through a thorough engagement with scholarship on nationalism and within a framework shaped by contemporary theopolitical studies and the biblical narrative. The study aims to discern how the Christian Scriptures and theological tradition have been used by Christians themselves to further what amounts to an alternative gospel. In so doing this book charts a path for the church to evaluate itself honestly in light of Christ's lordship, repent, and learn to tell its story more truly.

Author : Benjamin Fagan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : African American newspapers
ISBN : 9780820349404

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The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation by Benjamin Fagan Pdf

Benjamin Fagan shows how the early black press helped shape the relationship between black chosenness and the struggles for black freedom and equality in America, in the process transforming the very notion of a chosen American nation.

Author : Christina L. Littlefield
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451469622

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Chosen Nations by Christina L. Littlefield Pdf

At the heart of the biblical myth of chosenness is the idea that God has blessed a people to be a blessing to others. It is a mission of solemn responsibility. The six British and American thinkers examined in this study embraced the myth of chosenness for their countries, believed that the liberties they enjoyed were inherently tied to their Protestant faith, and that it was their mission to protect and spread that faith, and its democratic fruit, at home and abroad.

Author : James Pogue
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250169136

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Chosen Country by James Pogue Pdf

"Whoever you are, whatever side you’re on, if you care about the American west and what’s happening to it, read this book." —Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires An extraordinary inside look at America’s militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection. In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Pogue met ranchers and militiamen ready to die fighting the federal government. He witnessed the fallout of communities riven by politics and the danger (and allure) of uncompromising religious belief. The occupation ended in the shooting death of one rancher, the imprisonment of dozens more, and a firestorm over the role of government that engulfed national headlines. In a raw and restless narrative that roams the same wild terrain as his literary forebears Edward Abbey and Hunter S. Thompson, Pogue's Chosen Country examines the underpinnings of this rural uprising and struggles to reconcile diverging ideas of freedom, tracing a cultural fault line that spans the nation.

Author : Arnold M. Eisen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253114129

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The Chosen People in America by Arnold M. Eisen Pdf

An exploration of how American Jewish thinkers grapple with the notion of being the isolated “Chosen People” in a nation that is a melting pot. What does it mean to be a Jew in America? What opportunities and what threats does the great melting pot represent for a group that has traditionally defined itself as “a people that must dwell alone?” Although for centuries the notion of “The Chosen People” sustained Jewish identity, America, by offering Jewish immigrants an unprecedented degree of participation in the larger society, threatened to erode their Jewish identity and sense of separateness. Arnold M. Eisen charts the attempts of American Jewish thinkers to adapt the notion of chosenness to an American context. Through an examination of sermons, essays, debates, prayer-book revisions, and theological literature, Eisen traces the ways in which American rabbis and theologians—Reconstructionist, Conservative, and Orthodox thinkers—effected a compromise between exclusivity and participation that allowed Jews to adapt to American life while simultaneously enhancing Jewish tradition and identity. “This is a book of extraordinary quality and importance. In tracing the encounter of Jews (the chosen people) and America (the chosen nation) . . . Eisen has given the American Jewish community a new understanding of itself.” —American Jewish Archives “One of the most significant books on American Jewish thought written in recent years.” —Choice

Author : Richard T. Hughes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252050800

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Myths America Lives By by Richard T. Hughes Pdf

Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.

Author : Terry M. Wildman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0984770623

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Birth of the Chosen One by Terry M. Wildman Pdf

A book for children of all ages. This is the story of the birth of Jesus retold for Native Americans and other English speaking First Nations peoples. The text is from the First Nations Version Project by Terry M. Wildman.

Author : Beneyah Yashar'el
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798631761063

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Israel: the Chosen Nation by Beneyah Yashar'el Pdf

What is predestination? How does predestination conform to YAHUAH ELOHIYM's sovereign will? Who are the predestined elect people of Scripture said to rule and reign from the foundation of the earth? Where are these people now? The answers to these questions are explained in this book in accordance to Hebrew Texts, including the Torah, Tanakh, the New Testament, the deuteron-canonical works of Enoch and Jubilees, and the apocryphal writings. The research proves that the Negroes are the hidden predestined people known in scripture as Israelites who have been scattered to the four corners of the earth. They are indeed the people of the book and the evidence can be found in in the pages of Hebrew Scriptures, writings that Edom-Rome has attempted to discredit and destroy.

Author : Christopher Tounsel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478013105

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Chosen Peoples by Christopher Tounsel Pdf

On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which the South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from the Arab and Muslim Sudanese to the north and understand themselves as a spiritual community now freed from their oppressors. Less than three years later, however, new conflicts emerged along ethnic lines within South Sudan, belying the liberation theology that had supposedly reached its climactic conclusion with independence. In Chosen Peoples, Christopher Tounsel investigates the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan and the inability of shared religion to prevent conflict. Exploring the creation of a colonial-era mission school to halt Islam's spread up the Nile, the centrality of biblical language in South Sudanese propaganda during the Second Civil War (1983--2005), and postindependence transformations of religious thought in the face of ethnic warfare, Tounsel highlights the potential and limitations of deploying race and Christian theology to unify South Sudan.

Author : Blake Higginbotham
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 179325169X

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The Chosen by Blake Higginbotham Pdf

We are engaged in the conflict of the ages and for the first time in this generation, the sons of the Kingdom are awakening to the reality that the Kingdom has, is and will continue to come. It is not limited to a lifetime, generation or millennium. The defeated-one has been stripped of his rank power and authority. He is an interloper and usurper who no longer has a right to rule and reign. He is using deception and division to advance his anti-messianic message, and strong delusion, hatred, and intimidation to forward his agenda. He knows that we are not waiting to win. We won 2000 years ago. We are THE CHOSEN. This is our day and VICTORY is ours for the taking."As long as one son is alive on planet earth, the defeated-one will never again rise to power."His sons are awakening to the reality that WHAT we are doing is not working very well and they are also becoming aware that we have been sorely misinformed about a great many things.The order and government of Yahweh is both uncomfortable and disconcerting to the orphan of our soul, but then the son in us begins to surrender by the Spirit to the Sovereign will and authority of the King and His Domain.It is my hope that the revelatory knowledge contained in this book will provide a workable solution that produces Kingdom results."The gospel of the Kingdom is good news. Beware of those who make it about coming events."It is my prayer that this book will challenge all of us to continue to think outside of the box when it comes to our quest for TRUTH.

Author : Shepherd Bushiri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798524233400

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The Jesus Nation by Shepherd Bushiri Pdf

In this latest book, Shepherd Bushiri unveils a current reality that every Christian is supposed to be accustomed to. God is building a nation that He has called the JESUS NATION, and the sole mandate of his NATION is to establish Jesus Christ as the ultimate ruler of all the earth before His second return. Shepherd Bushiri takes on the mission of explaining how you can be part of this NATION, recognize it and even benefit from it. He desires that this book will act as an inner compass that will direct you to the fulfillment of your highest purpose in the body of Christ as both a steward and custodian in the JESUS NATION. Whether you are a new or old believer or wondering whether there is a great success in being a mentee in the prophetic, this book is one set for your season. Be ready to learn, and with this book from Shepherd Bushiri, dare to pursue to become an example of what it means to be part of a winning nation!

Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Devotional calendars
ISBN : 9780828023825

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The Upward Look by Ellen G. White Pdf

Author : Richard Green Moulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101066128545

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The Modern Reader's Bible by Richard Green Moulton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101066128396

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The Modern Reader's Bible: St. Luke and St. Paul, 1903 by Anonim Pdf