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Religion and politics in The Shining city: How the "Winthrop message" became the "Reagan message"
"Oxford historian Godfrey Hodgson began his 2009 debunking of American exceptionalism with a famous quotation from John Winthrop's 1630 discourse, A Model of Christian Charity. Governor Winthrop, attempting to explain his vision for the Puritan colony of Massachusetts Bay, blended Old Testament passages with Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and John Calvin's commentary on Matthew 5:14"(.)
