{"product_id":"as-a-city-on-a-hill-9780691181592","title":"As a City on a Hill","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"World's 2018 Books of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Rodgers’ superlative book is an intellectual page-turner—a muscular examination of the culture and theology behind the ‘Model,’ a cogent study of the methods by which a nation gives itself meaning through the inventive interpretation of documents from the past, and a sharp-eyed accounting of how Winthrop’s ‘city on a hill’ phrase came to be used in modern political parlance.\"\u003cb\u003e---Patrick T. Reardon, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a wonderful new book, \u003ci\u003eAs a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon\u003c\/i\u003e, distinguished intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers recaptures Winthrop’s original meaning and explains why it’s relevant to Americans today. . . . [A] masterful history.\"\u003cb\u003e---Robert Tracy McKenzie, \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Daniel Rodgers] argues that the comparison of America to a city on a hill that politicians often use, quoting from John Winthrop’s 1630 lay sermon ‘Model of Christian Charity,’ is not true to the sermon’s original sentiment and distorts the historical legacy of the passage. . . . It wasn’t until Cold War–era writers and thinkers revisited the ‘Model’ in search of evidence of America’s universal nature (ignoring the text’s historical context) that it regained popularity. Through a winding, enthralling timeline, Rodgers successfully illuminates the strange history of ‘a text that we think we know so well that we barely know it at all.’\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAs a City on a Hill \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterful synthesis. Spanning four centuries, the book deftly narrates the intellectual history of ‘America’s most famous lay sermon.’\"\u003cb\u003e---Seth Dowland, \u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rodgers’s \u003ci\u003eAs a City on a Hill\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptional piece of scholarship. Eminently readable and sophisticated in its analysis, scholars of nationalism, religion, political history, and the colonial Americas will find much material of interest, as will general audiences seeking to learn more about the shifting contours of American nationalism and about how historians, public officials, and the public work work perpetually to remake both national history and the means by which it is propagated. This is an important book.\"\u003cb\u003e---William S. Cossen, \u003ci\u003eH-Nationalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A model of clearly written scholarship.\"\u003cb\u003e---Marvin Olasky, \u003ci\u003eWorld (25 Good History Reads)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403858551127,"sku":"9780691181592","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691181592.jpg?v=1730484740","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/as-a-city-on-a-hill-9780691181592","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}