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vii Preface and Acknowledgments This volume emerged initially from a consultation in 2006 organized by the “USA with the World” project of the Center for Christian Studies (Gordon College, Mass.), under the direction of Harold Heie and sponsored by the Lilly Endowment. Several chapters of this book began their life as workshop presentations at that consultation, while others were subsequently commissioned by the editors. The editors wish to acknowledge the valuable institutional support of Gordon College and the generous financial support of the Lilly Endowment toward the completion of this book. We also gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Cardus, a Canadian think tank. Cardus staff member Robert Joustra served as research assistant to Jonathan Chaplin, a Cardus Senior Fellow, in the early stages of the preparation of the manuscript, under an arrangement whereby senior fellows can avail themselves of an amount of staff time toward research or other projects. As it turned out, Robert Joustra’s contribution went well beyond that normally expected of the role of research assistant, and he has in effect served as assistant editor . We are much indebted to the staff of Baylor University Press, with viii Preface and Acknowledgments whom it has been a pleasure to work, and we thank them for their professionalism and patience. An earlier version of Andrew Preston’s chapter was published as “Bridging the Gap between the Sacred and the Secular in the History of American Foreign Relations,” Diplomatic History 30 (November 2006). An earlier version of Thomas F. Farr’s chapter appeared in World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty Is Vital to American National Security (Oxford University Press, 2008). Thomas Albert Howard’s chapter draws on material appearing in God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and an earlier version appeared in the journal Hedgehog Review (vol. 8, Spring/ Summer 2006, 116–26). We gratefully acknowledge permission from the publishers and editors to include them here. ...

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