Christian America and the Kingdom of God

Index

inDex Adams, John, 111, 112 Afrikaners, 28 Aguinaldo, Emilio, 126 Allende, Salvador, 55 American Bible Society, 122 American Education Society, 122 American Empire (Andrew Bacevich), 56, 57 American Tract Society, 122 Amish, 15–16 Antiochus Epiphanes, 48 Apostle Paul: and kingdom of God, 73–88 Aquinas, Thomas: and just war theory, 90 Arbenz, Jacobo, 55 Arthur, Kay: and Israel, 180 Ashcroft, John: and International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 180 Augustine: and just war theory, 90 Bacevich, Andrew: and American Empire, 56, 57 Bainton, Roland, 89 Bakker, Jim: and dispensational premillennialism, 179 Balmer, Randall, 154 Barton, David: and The Myth of Separation, 115 “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Julia Ward Howe), 12–13, 97, 169 Beecher, Lyman, 130–31, 165, 177 Bellah, Robert N.: and assessment of 1960s/1970s, 152; and civil religion, 11 Bernstein, Luke, 160 Berry, Senator James Henderson, 128–29 Beveridge, Albert: and American exceptionalism, 29 Bob Jones III: and support for George W. Bush, 159–60 Bob Jones University: and segregation , 155 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 107 Boykin, William, 2 Brown v. Board of Education: and Bob Jones University, 155 Brubacher, Gordon, 35–36, 43 Brueggemann, Walter, 34–35; and The Prophetic Imagination, 65 Bryan, William Jennings, 148–49 Bush, George H. W., 57 Bush, George W.: and A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House, 169; and deception by his administration, 174; and denial of American imperialism, 54; and fundamentalism, 139, 157–76; and God, 165; and Jesus, 2; and manipulation of Christian churches, 160–61; and manipulation of Christian religion, 167–69; and myth of the chosen nation, 164–70; and myth of the innocent nation, 170–75; and September 11, 2001, 158–59; 206 index and support from conservative Christians, 157–60; and Thomas Jefferson, 165 Calvin, John, 28, 108–9 Calvinists, 107–9 Camp, Lee: and Mere Discipleship, 58 Campbell, Alexander, 32 Cane Ridge Revival, 121 Carmichael, Stokely: and Freedom Movement, 151 Carnegie, Andrew, 130 Carter, Jimmy: and fundamentalist influence on American Middle East policy, 180; and Our Endangered Values, 138, 180 Carter, Warren, 52, 65, 66 Castro, Fidel, 55 Celsus, 89 Center for Public Integrity: and report on deception of Bush administration, 174 Cheney, Dick: and “Defense Planning Guidance,” 55, 56 chosen people: biblical idea of, 25–28 Christian Amendment Association , 8 Christian amendment to Constitution , 7–8 Christianity and the Social Crisis (Walter Rauschenbusch), 133 Christianity Today, 150 Christian nation platforms, 187n1 Civil Religion: idea of, 11–12 Cizik, Richard, 182 Cleaver, Eldridge: and Soul on Ice, 64 Clinton, Bill, 57 Compolo, Tony, 156 Confederate States of America: constitution of, 7 Constantine (Roman emperor), 90, 105, 107 Constitution of United States: and Christian America, 114–18; and disestablishment, 2; and God, 7 Conwell, Russell, 132 Copeland, Kenneth: and dispensational premillennialism, 179 Coulter, Ann, 5–6; and Godless: The Church of Liberalism, 5; and Muslims, 5 Covenant, The (James Michener), 28 Crossan, John Dominic, 31–32, 36–37, 45, 52, 60, 62, 77, 78, 82, 97 Cushing, John: and America as new Israel, 24 Cyprian: and non-violence, 89 Darby, John Nelson: and dispensational premillennialism, 145–46, 177–78 Darwin, Charles: and fundamentalism , 140–41; and On the Origin of Species, 140 Day, Dorothy, 107 Dean, Howard, 17 Declaration of Independence, 110–14 “Defense Planning Guidance,” 55, 56 Deism: and Declaration of Independence , 110–14 Delay, Tom: and International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 180 Diem, Ngo Dinh, 55 Dobson, James: and Family Research Council, 153; and United States Supreme Court, 154 Domitian (Roman emperor), 92 Domke, David, 166 Dorrien, Gary, 57 Douglass, Frederick: and Christian America, 124 Dutch East India Company, 28 Dwight, Timothy, 121–22 Dyess Air Force Base, 58 Edwards, Jonathan, 120, 177 Ely, Ezra Stiles: and Christian political party, 8–9 index 207 empire, American, 52–58 An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror (David Frum and Richard Perle), 170 Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (William Stringfellow), 98–102 Evangelicals: and their relation to fundamentalism, 156; and support for George W. Bush, 157–59; and support for Iraq War, 161–62 Evangelicals for Social Action: and Ron Sider, 156 Falwell, Jerry, 9; and Christian tours of Israel, 181; and David Barton, 115; and dispensational premillennialism, 179; and George W. Bush, 159; and Israel, 180; and Moral Majority, 6, 152 Finney, Charles G., 122, 123 Forbes, Congressman Randy: and American Religious History Week, 9 Fordice, Kirk, 2...