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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Unapologetic Providentialism
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CHAPTER ONE One General and Two Americas: A Case Study in Providential Rhetoric
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CHAPTER TWO Providence American Style: A Short History of the Construction of the Idea of America
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CHAPTER THREE On the Question of Preferentiality in Liberalism and Liberation Theology
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CHAPTER FOUR Resident Advisors vs. Resident Aliens: 9/11 and the Persistence of American Providence
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CHAPTER FIVE A Particular Theory of Providence
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CHAPTER SIX On the Two Globalisms and the Destiny of American Christianity
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CHAPTER SEVEN Carl Schmitt and the Limits of Democracy
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Conclusion: American Democracy as the Dream of the Church
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Appendix: Providence and Progress
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Index
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