Chosen Nations: Pursuit of the Kingdom of God and Its Influence on Democratic Values in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States

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Index abortion, 197, 229 Adam, 94 adoption, 141 adultery, 195 alcohol, 56, 148, 155, 188, 208 American Revolution, 4, 22, 29, 69 Anabaptists, 115, 205, 206 anatomy, 94 Anderson, Benedict, 19, 28 Anglicans, 18, 129, 162, 230 Anglo-Saxons, 93–101 anthropology, 94, 228–29 anti-Semitism, 33, 100 Apostles’ Creed, 80, 120 arbitration, 159–60, 181, 221 Arthur, William, 50 assimilation, 93, 96–98, 121–24, 133, 174 atheism, 114, 120, 138, 207, 228 Augustine, 221 Baptists, 42, 61, 90, 207 Barna, George, 12 Barrett, Mary Katherine, 53 Barton, David, 14–15 Barzun, Jacques, 18 Batten, Samuel, 63 Bauer, Bruno, 83 Bellah, Robert, 2, 3–8, 11, 12, 13, 224, 227 Bellamy, Edward, 83, 171 Besant, Annie, 79 Beveridge, William, 17 Bill of Rights, 29, 32, 212 biology, 94 Bismarck, Otto von, 163, 166 blacks, 11, 97–100 Bliss, W. D. P., 63, 84, 171 Boer War, 27, 100, 108–9, 220, 221 Booth, William, 84, 150, 153, 180 Boy Scouts, 141 Bradlaugh, Charles, 79, 138–39 Bright, John, 192 brotherhood of man, 81, 85–87, 100, 143, 144, 198, 203, 204, 211, 213 Browning, Robert, 44, 84 Brown, Steward Jay, 18 Bruce, Steve, 19 Burke, Edmund, 71, 180 Bush, George W., 15 Bushnell, Horace, 96 Butler, Josephine, 50, 209 Butler, Judith, 2 Butterfield, Herbert, 9, 16, 20 Calvinism, 60, 153, 206 Calvin, John, 46 Cameron, David, 229 Campbell, David, 15 Campbell, Joseph, 9 Campolo, Tony, 64 capitalism, 7, 64, 144, 163–72 Carlyle, Thomas, 69, 83, 164 Carnegie, Andrew, 36, 84, 151 Cashman, Sean Dennis, 35 Catholics. See Roman Catholicism Chalmers, Thomas, 163 Chamberlain, Joseph, 47, 172, 192 charity, 145, 159 Cherry, Conrad, 9, 14 China, 34 chosenness, 4, 13, 14, 16, 18, 67–68, 111–12, 215, 220 Christendom, 7, 28, 73, 226 Christian America, 14–15, 111–12, 226, 228, 229 255 Christianity: and Democracy, 204–13; vindication of, 76–79 Christian Platonism, 44, 84 Christian socialism, 160, 166, 171, 182 Christology, 81, 85, 86 church: and culture, 225–26; denominations of, 90–92; on social ills, 38; and state, 4, 33, 49, 72, 77, 114–16, 125, 128, 136, 141, 196, 197, 222; as universal, 82 Church of England, 32, 118, 124–28 cities, 172–77 citizenship, 185, 198, 217 “City on a Hill”, 4 civil religion: definition of, 3–13; of nineteenth-century, 220–23; of today, 223–29 Civil War, 30, 97 Clark, Alfred Corning, 56 class division, 161–63, 213 Clinton, Bill, 223 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 43, 44, 72, 164 Colley, Linda, 17–18, 29 commercialism, 144 common good, 226 communion of saints, 49 communism, 18 competition, 144, 160, 168, 203 compromise, 222, 226 Comte, Auguste, 5–6, 23, 77, 82–83, 218 Congregationalists, 90, 125, 207, 210 conscience, 1, 21, 31, 113, 116–17, 121, 129, 221 Constantinianism, 221, 226 Constitution, 29, 32, 135, 210 Contagious Disease Act, 50, 181, 188, 191, 209 cooperation, 87, 161, 168, 181 corruption, 39–40, 55, 136, 167, 190, 200–202, 217, 226 covenant, 111–12, 220, 229 covenant responsibility, 67–68, 72–73, 74–76 Cowper-Temple clause, 129 Crimean War, 108 Cromwell, Oliver, 70 culture, 94, 95, 224–26 Dale, Alfred William Winterslow, 47 Dale, Robert William, 3, 21, 52, 58, 64; biography of, 46–49; on Catholicism, 118–20; on chosenness, 68–70; on the church, 78, 91–92, 114–15; on democracy, 205, 208, 209, 210; on disestablishment, 126; on economics, 166, 167; on education, 128, 129–30, 132; as example, 41; on expansion, 103, 104; identity of, 25; on incarnation, 84–85, 178; influences on, 83; on kingdom of God, 89, 219; on labour rights, 160; on law, 222; on liberty, 211; on municipal reform, 175–76; on politics, 189, 191–97, 198, 199–200; on religious liberty, 137, 138–39; on responsibility, 152–54, 203–4; on social gospel, 80; on social reform, 146, 179, 221; on wealth, 149–50 dancing, 148 Darwin, Charles, 83 Davie, Grace, 13–14, 19 Dawkins, Richard, 2 Dawson, Christopher, 18 Dawson, George, 47, 172 deafness, 63–64 Declaration of Independence, 4, 29, 32, 212 deism, 29, 77 Demant, V. A., 17 democracy, 3, 11, 19, 166, 186; and Christianity, 39–40, 204–13; and religion, 226; values of, 216–19 denominations, 90–92 Derrida, Jacques, 10 256 | Chosen Nations Dickens, Charles, 84 dignity, 182, 215 Dilke, Charles, 195 discipline, 162 disease, 155, 165, 173 disestablishment, 52, 124–28 Dixon, George, 192...