Peter Marshall and David Manuel a spring of the first Christians lbs America's baby-boom generation - the light and glory. The book was published in 1977 by Fleming H. Revell Company.
More than 50 years had an average church in exile from the square after the Scopes "Monkey Trial" was approved in 1925. The Christians were still wandering in the desert culture. "Cultural Egypt could be described in greater detail. Almost to a man, the church wasblind to any doctrine of civil government, or a sense of cultural duty.
The Light & Glory was an alarm bell for the church to its leadership role in the nation to resume. Christians were awakened by the call to arms. Peter Marshall and David Manuel co-author were there when we need them.
A city on a hill
The book describes the authors find our time has lost its Christian heritage. The story reads like a treasure hunt, the literature of a reference to the leadanother. As a precursor to the film "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, based on Federal obedience "city on a hill." This famous phrase comes from John Winthrop's "model of Christian charity" discourse above.
planted seeds of pluralism
Peter Marshall is aware of the risk in short-Roger Williams to the model of alliance. Williams'Stress on "Freedom of conscience" was a heart attack to the collar 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 independent spirit of freedom by law.
Williams dismissed her spell and fled back into the wilderness, instead of boarding the ship for England. He was not driven into the wilderness by the "heartless" Puritans. "In the same spiritRebellion has been visited in Iceland as the founder of Rhode Williams. As Peter Marshall said that "Providence has been a magnet for all spinner, rebel, a maverick and independent, on the Atlantic coast." schismatic rebellion Williams' guaranteed the final 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 traditional novel is set as a storyBook.
Peter Marshall does a good job on the report Puritan declension from the federal government. However, he ignores the great revival of 1740 as a return to "a deep desire for a national alliance of life." According to Peter Marshall, who would be "a new generation of priests who help to prepare America to fight for their lives would be."
In a sense this may be true, but on a deeper level undermines the awakening of the Federation. The British Crown has described theWar of Independence as a "Presbyterian rebellion."
A devastating fire
But seriously crippled the awakening of the church. Making the slightest effort with the local clergy to work together, create the preacher usually their makeshift pulpit outside the city in an open field. They saw the church as a barrier with no hope of revival and ignored the passage that "repentance must begin with the family of God."
The awakening was when the beginning of the end for the Churcha voice of authority in America. As an institution was the church as irrelevant to anything concrete you see in the culture. The strain of individualism is inserted through the recovery of a large part to blame. It reinforces the spirit of enlightened independence that animated the Revolution.
The Enlightenment
The spirit of awakening did not offer resistance to the teachings of lighting such 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 revival of Christian life to the revolution only.
Escape from reality
Here is the book to take flight from reality begins. In contrast to Peter Marshall, was the declaration of independence is not a renewal agreement based on the use ofBible. The focus of communication is an affirmation of human rights - would have given by God - the injustice was injured. It had nothing to do with restoring the authority of God These are people, with God, appointed to the service of man and his alleged rights.
to establish the rights of injured parties and secure. The statement says nothing about the defense of honor and authority of God as a standard or purpose for civilian government. The reasons for theRevolution, on the basis of social contract theory (the consent of the governed) and rationalism (truism) in September
The final chapter of Peter Marshall turns to the Constitution, but not the spirit of the Enlightenment to the same work visa. When he says that "almost on the level and size of human wisdom" (P343), he brings to worship the Constitution.
The author deals with the exclusion of any blasphemous religious test for public office (Article VI,Section 3) as if it does not exist. Apparently determining federal whistle-break, he concludes that the Constitution "nothing less than the institutional guardian of the Covenant way of life for the nation as a whole." This is a surprising conclusion, given the constitutional authority of the replacement of God with the "we the people."
The leaders of the conspiracy against God - Washington in particular - are greeted almost like demigods. The final chapterPeter Marshall is struggling with the confusion inherent in his position.
At one point, he inadvertently contradicts his thesis: first, he says. "The Constitutional Treaty of the best ever made by man for his own self-government is being dragged" Immediately, he contradicts this statement with approval. "But as valuable as the Constitution, it is still a secularization of the spiritual reality of the Federal Council, there can never replace a deal of his life given wholly to the LordChrist Jesus "(p.348).
It 's hard to say which is much clearer than that. We can only shake his head in amazement. You can not have both, but the Christian constitutionalists want to eat the cake and have it too. The lack of Christian perspectives in that single paragraph constitutional suspended.
If there is a mist in the pulpit is a fog in the pews. When it comes to the National Alliance with God, the church is in the dark, groping for their ChristianConstitutional Court leaders.
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