Sentences with phrase «puritan city on the hill»

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Reconstructionists leave little doubt that they are consciously imitating the Puritans of the early 17th century in establishing «a city on a hill» and calling on the New Testament (e.g., Matt.

To take another example, one can scarcely imagine American Indians accepting the notion that a white European United States has an a priori right to exist because «God gave the Puritans this land,» to make a «city set on a hill.»

Even from the time of the Puritans, he reveals, America was no shining «city up on a hill» but an engine of commercial and territorial expansion that drove Native Americans, as well as French, Spanish, Russian, and ultimately even British power, from the North American continent.