Peter Marshall and David Manuel spring of the first Christians lbs America boomer generation - the light and glory. The book was published in 1977 by Fleming H. Revell Company.
Approximately 50 years was the average church exile from the square after the expiry Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Christians were still wandering in the desert culture. "Cultural Egypt could be described in greater detail. Almost like a man, was the churchregardless of any doctrine of civil government, or a sense of cultural duty.
The Light and the Glory was an alarm for the church to demonstrate its leadership in the nation to resume. Christians were awakened by the call to arms. Peter Marshall and co-author David Manuel was there when we need them.
A city on a hill
The book describes the research of authors for our time has lost its Christian heritage. The story reads like a treasure hunt, the path leads to a literaryanother. As a forerunner of the movie "National Treasure" in literary form.
The book describes exactly the role of the federal government in the lives of Pilgrims and Puritans. Marshall captures their vision of a "city upon a hill" at the Federal obedience. This famous phrase comes from John Winthrop, "Model of Christian Charity" speech.
planted seeds of pluralism
Peter Marshall understands the danger of running out Roger Williams on the model of alliance. Williams'The emphasis on "freedom of conscience" was an attack on the federal government at the heart of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Marshall describes' rebellion Williams as "Nobody tells me what to do or believe" attitude. The Puritans saw himself as a dangerous spirit of freedom, beyond the law.
Williams leaned her spell and fled into the desert rather than the ship to England. He was not driven into the desert "heartless Puritan." That same spiritThe rebellion was in Iceland, Williams visited the founder of Rhode. When Peter Marshall says, "Providence is a magnet for every checkbox, rebel, outsider, and independently on the Atlantic coast. schismatic rebellion Williams' guaranteed the ultimate failure of the government of God in America.
Declination
The book is a cross between historical fiction and historical narrative. Character development is more like a novel set in a traditional talePaper.
Peter Marshall does a good job on the report Puritan declension from the federal government. However, he misunderstands the great awakening of 1740, when the return to "a deep desire for a Covenant of life." According to Peter Marshall, who would be "a new generation of priests to help prepare America would fight for their lives."
In a sense, this may be true, but at a deeper level undermines the awakening of the Federation. The English Crown has described theRevolt Revolutionary War as a "Presbyterian".
A devastating fire
But seriously crippled the awakening of the church. Making little effort to work with the parish priest, itinerant preacher usually set their makeshift pulpit outside the city in an open field. It sees the church as an obstacle to ignore without hope of renewal, that the passage beginning "repentance with God's family must".
The awakening was the beginning of the end for the Churcha voice of authority in America. As an institution was the church as irrelevant to see some real substance in the culture. The strain of individualism is inserted through the recovery largely to blame. It strengthens the spirit of enlightened independence that animated the Revolution.
The Enlightenment
The spirit of awakening, no resistance to these doctrines of the Enlightenment offered unbridled freedom of conscience, individual human rights, rationalismand natural law. education classes were less virulent in America and Europe, but were still influential, particularly with the colonial leaders.
Unfortunately, Peter Marshall fails to recognize this influence. For him the Christian rebirth is the only animated revolutionary period.
Escape from reality
This is where the book begins to take flight from reality. In contrast to Peter Marshall, The Declaration of Independence was not a condition for renewing appeals to the baseBible. The focus of the statement is an affirmation of human rights - presumably God-given - that he had been hurt unfairly. It had nothing to do with the restoration of government authority is a man of God, God has appointed to serve man and his alleged rights.
The rights of people injured, must be justified and saved. The statement says nothing about the defense of honor and authority of God as a standard or purpose for civilian government. The reasonsRevolution has been placed on a foundation of social contract theory (the consent of Governors), and rationalism (truism).
In the last chapter, Peter Marshall turns to the Constitution, but not with the same spirit of the Enlightenment to the work recognized. Like him, which is "almost beyond the scope and dimension of human wisdom" (p343) is, he brings to worship the Constitution.
The author with the exclusion of any religious test for public office blasphemous (Article VI,Section 3) as well not exist. Apparently forgotten this rule-breaking alliance, he concludes that the Constitution is "nothing less than the institutional guardian of the Covenant way of life for the nation as a whole." This is a surprising conclusion in view of setting up the replacement of the rule of God with the "we the people".
The leaders of the conspiracy against God - Washington in particular - are touted as almost demigods. In the final chapterPeter Marshall struggles with the confusion inherent in his position.
At one point, he inadvertently contradicts its argument: first, he enthuses: "The Constitution of the best contract ever for people with the self is taken." It directly contradicts this statement with the admission: "But as precious as the Constitution is still a secularization of the spiritual reality of the covenant. It can never replace a pact of life entirely given to the LordJesus Christ "(p.348).
It 'hard to say that is much clearer than that. We can only shake his head in amazement. You can not have both, but the Christian broadcasters want to eat the cake and have it. The lack of the Constitution Christian Outlook is set forth in this paragraph.
If there is a mist in the pulpit is a fog bank. When it comes to the National Alliance with God, the Church remains in the dark, according to their ChristianJournal Constitution.
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