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Now and then through the decades there’s a swell of complaints that America has strayed from its Christian roots. But others question whether the U.S. was ever designed to be a Christian nation. Notre Dame historians Mark Noll and George Marsden, authors of many works on early American history and on evangelical Christianity, consider current interpretations of the founding fathers. Skot Welch is guest host.
(Thanks to Carson Clark for this link.)
Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School
Brian McLaren has signaled on this blog a very powerful prophetic article that Hauerwas has just published on the ACB net. Here are a few significant quotes from it:
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America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity. America is the first place Protestantism did not have to define itself over against a previous Catholic culture. So America is the exemplification of constructive Protestant social thought.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer thus got it right when he characterized American Protestantism as “Protestantism without Reformation.” Continue reading “Stanley Hauerwas on the Death of America’s God”
“The European Dream emphasizes community relationships over individual autonomy, cultural diversity over assimilation, quality of life over the accumulation of wealth, sustainable development over unlimited material growth, deep lay over unrelenting toil, universal human rights and the rights of nature over property rights, and global cooperation over the unilateral exercise of power.” (Jeremy Rifkin – The European Dream. How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream) Continue reading “The European Dream vs. the American Dream”
CNN anunţă că, după toate probabilităţile, Barack Obama va deveni cel de al 44-lea Preşedinte al Statelor Unite. În momentul în care scriu aceste rânduri, McCain rosteşte, cu o extremă decenţă. discursul de recunoaştere a înfrângerii.
Deşi, în ce mă priveşte, am votat întotdeauna cu dreapta, de această dată am susţinut emoţional pe Obama contra lui McCain, în esenţă din pricina necesităţii unei schimbări radicale în America în raport cu politica dezastruoasă, mai ales în plan internaţional, a lui George Bush.
