Providence Forms a Nation in the Womb of Time: Colonial & Revolutionary America, 1492-1790 (A Providential History of the United States)

This book narrates Spain's success in colonizing parts of the Western Hemisphere but its failure to colonize North America's eastern seaboard north of Florida. The author argues that God acted to enable England to colonize that Atlantic coast in the 1600s and enabled those thirteen colonies to flourish. Due to religious divisions and Parliament's powers, the English kings had to allow religious liberty and some political freedoms to those colonists. The thirteen colonies were mainly Protestant but otherwise fairly diverse in terms of ethnic groups -- plus the blacks forced to come there and forced to work as slaves. The strong piety of many in the first generation of colonists plus the Great Awakening of the 1740s created and maintained a strong Christian identity. That did not mean a perfectly just society, but New England Puritans did originate some features of the later evangelical missionary movement overseas. This three-volume series interprets God's main purpose in forming the American nation to be His goal of extending such proclamation of the Gospel to all nations. He was forming a nation-to-be long before these colonists thought of themselves as anything but an outpost of the British Empire. They had an uncertain political status within that Empire. During and after the Seven Years' War (1756-63), this uncertainty aggravated tensions between them and England, leading to Americans' protests against Parliament's taxing them without their being represented in that body. Warfare over these issues began at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, although neither side really wanted war and most Americans did not at first want independence. This book stresses the providential causation of the war, and God's controlling hand over its battles and the French-American alliance that turned it into a global war. The newly independent United States at first had too weak a national government, but the Founders' Constitution devised in 1787 corrected that defect. The book ends with George Washington's inauguration as the first President in April 1789. Many Founders saw the nation's key purpose as spreading liberty and republican government around the world, but the radicalism of the French Revolution that began in July 1789 caused some Founders to question that global mission. A few recognized that advancing a global Gospel was the nation's true calling in history.
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Author/Artist:Keillor Ph.D., Steven J.
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