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Dr. Francis Bremer
Puritans Guiding Today's Politicians? Millersville University Professor Says Yes
November 15th, 2008
From questions about Mitt Romney's Mormon faith to questions about Barrack Obama's pastor, this has been a presidential campaign season in which religion has played a large role. And anyone who has followed the spectacle has undoubtedly heard Sarah Palin seek to inspire Americans by claiming that God has made us "A Shining City on a Hill." "The phrase comes from the year 1630 when the puritan John Winthrop wrote it to describe the America he imagined," explained Dr. Francis Bremer, history professor at Millersville University of Pennsylvania and author of "John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father." "What Winthrop stated was important because he and his fellow...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-11-15)
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