SEARCHING
FOR GOD
IN AMERICA The Companion Volume
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to the Acclaimed
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Public Television Series HUGH HEWITT Hardback book with Dust Jacket Over 510 pages Copyright © 1996 by Word Publishing " Building on the success of the widely popular series he originated for public television,
Hugh Hewitt embarks on another quest that continues to reveal the web of
interconnectedness in America's search for spiritual meaning and enlightenment. " " SEARCHING FOR GOD IN AMERICA
with Hugh Hewitt ... is a fascinating odyssey that traces the fiery spirited birth of the American nation, beginning with the Mayflower Compact and continuing to the present-day reawakening of spiritual consciousness. " " Along with detailed transcriptions of interviews conducted with eight of the most distinguished thinkers and spiritual leaders of our time, author and Emmy award-winning television host Hugh Hewitt shares a remarkable spiritual anthology reflecting the nature of America's passion for truth and its ongoing search for God. "
" Charles Colson, Dr. Roberta Hestenes, Elder Neal Maxwell, Father Thomas Keating,
Rabbi Harold Kushner, The Reverend Cecil Murray, Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. " " Packed with photos and engrossing documentation, Searching for God in America introduced you to the witness of
John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Charles G. Finney, Mark Twain, and Alexis de Tocqueville, as well as the spiritual observations and lessons of Albert Einstein, Thomas Merton, Norman Vincent Peale, Peter Marshall, The Baltimore Catechism, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Isaac Bashevis Singer, George Foreman, Menachem Schneerson, Charles Colson, and Frederick Buechner.
These and hundreds more make this the ultimate treasury of insights into the nature of faith and the search for God in America. " " AN AMERICAN TREASURY The history of the American people is in large measure the story of an adventure of faith and belief. From the Mayflower Compact to today's awakening of spiritual consciousness, Americans have always accorded God, and the search for the eternal, a special place in their lives and thoughts. " " This handsome companion to the public television series, "Searching for God in America," offers one of the most comprehensive recitations of that remarkable history ever assembled. Along with detailed transcriptions of interviews with eight distinguished thinkers and religious leaders, author and broadcaster Hugh Hewitt has prepared this remarkable anthology as a reflection on the nature of our quest for truth and the ongoing search for God. " " The canvas of faith in American life has always been broad and colorful.
Along with the witness of John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefiled, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Mark Twain, we find here the potent observations of Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Peter Marshall, John F. Kennedy, Elijah Muhammad, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Menachem Schneerson, and Frederick Buechner. These and dozens more make this a treasury of insights into the nature of faith. " " Despite the deep-seated suspicions of what the author calls "the chattering class" - the vast group of intellectuals and cultural elite, including editorial writers, TV producers, the professionally opinionated, and a large swath of the Academy - faith has not disappeared in America. The search for God has not even been relegated to the shadows. " " In these pages, Hugh Hewitt repeats that faith is as dynamic as ever before, and even though the context of our lives may have changed over the years, most Americans still believe in God as a present and powerful force, and the attempts to relegate religion to a "protected zone" have seemingly failed. " " As testament to this fact, the volume includes challenging interviews with public figures such as Charles Colson, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Dr. Roberta Hestenes, Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Rev. Cecil Murray.
Conversations with Elder Neal Maxwell of the Mormon Church; Father Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk and leader in contemplative prayer; and the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet make this one of the broadest and most compelling discussions of religious thought ever published. " " In his classic work. Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that "Despotism may be able to do without faith but freedom cannot."
The rich abundance and vitality of religious expression in American life, as this book and the television series attest, is evidence that America's heritage of freedom is alive and well, and our legacy of faith is as strong as ever. " Contents include: " INTRODUCTION PREFACE / THE SEARCH FOR GOD:
A CHRISTAIN PERSPECTIVE
BY REV. MARK D. ROBERTS CONVERSATIONS ABOUT FAITH, 1996
Charles Colson
Harold Kushner
Dr. Roberta Hestenes
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Reverend Cecil Murray
Elder Neal Maxwell
Father Thomas Keating
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet SELECTIONS FROM AMERICA'S SPIRITUAL TREASURY
The Mayflower Compact
John Winthrop
Mary Rowlandson
Anne Bradstreet
Jonathan Edwards
Junipero Serra
George Whitefield
John Woolman
Mother Ann Lee
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Francis Asbury
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Henry David Thoreau
Jarena Lee
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverend Charles G. Finney
Red Jacket
Alexis de Tocqueville
Phoebe Palmer
Walt Whitman
Julia Ward Howe
Herman Melville
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Emily Dickinson
Louisa May Alcott
Mark Twain
Black Elk
Ernest Holmes
Mary Baker Eddy
Luther Standing Bear
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Janitin
Frederick Douglass
Andrew Carnegie
Muhammad Alexander Russel Webb
William James
Baltimore Catechism No. 3
Helen Keller
D. L. Moody
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Edith Wharton
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Willa Cather
John Dewey
Aimee Semple McPherson
George Santayana
Clarence Darrow
H.L. Mencken
Colonel Donald S. Rockwell
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Carry A. Nation
George S. Patton, Jr.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Albert Einstein
Harry S. Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert Oppenheimer
Peter Marshall
Justice Robert Jackson
Edmund Wilson
Bishop Fulton Sheen
Robert Lowell
Richard Wright
Mary McCarthy
Thomas Merton
Norman Vincent Peale
Golda Meir
Elijah Muhammad
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Alan Watts
Malcolm X
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Charles Colson
Eldridge Cleaver
George Foreman
Jimmy Carter
Miles Davis
William G. Gillespie
Thomas Howard
Cesar Chavez
Muhammad Ali
Ronald Reagan
Walker Percy
Richard J. Foster
Maya Angelou
Sir John Templeton
Henri Nouwen
Peter Gillquist
Thomas Keating, O.S.C.
Jane Wagner
Annie Dillard
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Isaac Asimov
Frederick Buechner THE THREE MINUTE SERMON
(OR WHY I LIKE WRITING SONGS OF FAITH)
BY WALT HARRAH
How Firm a Foundation
My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus!
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
It Is Well with My Soul
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
God of Our Fathers
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
The Wonder of It All
In the Garden
The Old Rugged Cross
I Belong to the King
America, the Beautiful
My Heart, How Very Hard It's Grown
Angel of Peace, Thou Hast Wandered Too Long
A Little Kingdom I Possess
Our Bondage, It Shall End
I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord
Abide in Me, O Lord, and I in Thee
We Love the Venerable House
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
When Israel Was in Egypt's Land
Higher Ground
Seventy Years Ago
Hope in God AFTERWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SOURCES " This book is in very good condition except for some stains on the inside of the dust jacket, the front cover, the inside covers and the first and last pages.
It looks like it got wet and the dark cover caused the stains, but does not affect the pages except the first few in the beginning and end.
No torn or ripped pages.
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