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Samuel Goldman - God's Country, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

God's Country

Christian Zionism in America

Av Samuel Goldman

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The United States is Israel's closest ally in the world. The fact is undeniable, and undeniably controversial, not least because it so often inspires conspiracy theorizing among those who refuse to believe that the special relationship serves America's strategic interests or places the United States on the side of Israel's enduring conflict with the Palestinians. Some point to the nefarious influence of a powerful "Israel lobby" within the halls of Congress. Others detect the hand of evangelical Protestants who fervently support Israel for their own theological reasons. The underlying assumption of all such accounts is that America's support for Israel must flow from a mixture of collusion, manipulation, and ideologically driven foolishness.Samuel Goldman proposes another explanation. The political culture of the United States, he argues, has been marked from the very beginning by a Christian theology that views the American nation as deeply implicated in the historical fate of biblical Israel. God's Country is the first book to tell the complete story of Christian Zionism in American political and religious thought from the Puritans to 9/11. It identifies three sources of American Christian support for a Jewish state: covenant, or the idea of an ongoing relationship between God and the Jewish people; prophecy, or biblical predictions of return to The Promised Land; and cultural affinity, based on shared values and similar institutions. Combining original research with insights from the work of historians of American religion, Goldman crafts a provocative narrative that chronicles Americans' attachment to the State of Israel.
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Samuel Goldman teaches political science and is Executive Director of the Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom at the George Washington University. He is author of After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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"This study of the history of pro- and anti-Israel ideas among American Christians from the Colonial period to the present day challenges the stereotypes that often distort discussions of Christian Zionism and offers useful observations about one of the most important political forces in American life." (Foreign Affairs) "Significant and surprising. . . . [God's Country] not only traces the 200 years of scriptural interpretation and evangelical exhortation connecting Adams and Pence but also delves into 200 years of prior British Protestantism that shaped the outlook of the Revolutionary generation." (Commentary) "[A]n ambitious book . . . a highly readable overview of American Christian thought about Israel from the time of the Puritans to the modern period." (Journal of Church and State) "Goldman's book could not be more timely. If you want to understand how the Christian right, once known as anti-Semitic, can now be pro-Zionist, this is the book for you." (Alan Wolfe, Boston College) "God's Country tracks four centuries of a Bible-reading people's thoughts about the people of the Bible. Samuel Goldman tells a fascinating, surprising story." (Richard Brookhiser, author of Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln) "A serious and substantial contribution to U.S. intellectual history. Samuel Goldman's careful reading of the relationship between American Protestants and a biblically grounded Zionism not only provides expert understanding of the deeply religious foundation of American Exceptionalism but also forces a reconsideration of the intellectual terrain." (Raymond Haberski, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) "Drawing from an extensive body of literature that spans several disciplines, Samuel Goldman's God's Country describes the religious and political phenomenon of American Christian Zionism in ways that are accessible to scholars, students, and general readers alike. The book is the best overview we have of this complex and timely topic." (Michael Lienesch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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1 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

  1. 5/5 Tommy R

    Unik akademisk bok som sätter in den kristna sionismen och teologin i sin historiska frikyrkliga amerikanska kontext och visar hur den är resultatet av en lång intellektuell process.

    Brittiska pilgrimer anländer till Amerika med en idé om att dem själva är utvalda av Gud och den nya kontinenten ett parallellt Israel. Tids nog menar man att judar behöver konverteras till kristen tro och med detta återupprätta det historiska Israel i Mellanöstern. De inleder samarbete med judiska organisationer. I den tredje och nuvarande fasen skippar man kravet på att judar måste konvertera och menar på att upprättandet av en etno-stat i sig kommer att kickstarta Messias (Jesus) återkomst, vilket är det huvudsakliga målet för den kristna sionismen. Upprättandet av staten Israel 1948 blir för dem ett bevis för riktigheten i den egna tron och strävandet, och ett ifrågasättande av den moderna staten Israel tolkas med detta sålunda som ett angrepp på den egna kristna tron.

    Boken innehåller namnen på de personer, dokument och händelser sedan de första pilgrimerna som agiterade för och skapade en amerikansk teologi som sedan har exporterats till Europa och även Sverige.
    En bok för den som söker historisk kunskap bortom flertalet.

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