More Desired Than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism - Couverture rigide

Smith, Robert O.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199993246 ISBN 13 : 9780199993246

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2013

Synopsis

More Desired Than Our Owne Salvation Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. Robert O. Smith provides an in-depth look at the English Protestant tradition of Judeo-centric prophecy interpretation at the heart of this popular affinity. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. Millions more see the ''special relationship'' between the two countries as a bond that should never be challenged, much less broken. Robert O. Smith provides an in-depth look at the English Protestant tradition of Judeo-centric prophecy interpretation at the heart of this popular affinity. In 2006, John Hagee founded Christians United for Israel. Several high-level policymakers, both Christians and Jews, flocked to endorse the effort. Soon, however, questions rose about apparently anti-Catholic and anti-Islamic ideas contained in Hagee's preaching and writing. More Desired Than Our Owne Salvation explores the content of Christian Zionist attitudes, their resonance in popular American culture, and the history of the ideas that have contributed to present realities. After discussing polling data and exploring how Black Protestant views clarify general American attitudes, Smith revisits sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant interpretations of scripture and history. The Pope and the Turk figured significantly, identified by both Luther and Calvin as the two heads of the Antichrist. Protestant exiles from England carried these ideas back to Elizabethan England, provided a nationalist twist, and set Anglo-American history on a new path. The resulting English Protestant tradition of Judeo-centric prophecy interpretation shaped Puritan identity, which was then transferred to New England, where it began informing the foundations of American vocation and self-understanding. Through its developments and adaptations, this Judeo-centric tradition provided English colonists and Anglo Americans with purpose and vision. When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, many Americans readily welcomed it as a prophetic counterpart, a country whose preservation ''may be more desired then our owne salvation.''

Biographie de l'auteur :

Pastor and Area Program Director for the Middle East & North Africa, the Evangelical Lutheran Church; co-moderator of the Palestine-Israel Ecumenical Forum of the World Council of Churches. Ph.D. in Religion, Politics & Society from Baylor University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199993246
• ISBN 13: 9780199993246
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304