 States, the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America...  Democracy in America - Stran 239avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 455 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | D. H. Montgomery - 2007 - 372 strani
...his book, this keen social observer and gifted author wrote: There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence...conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth. The secret to America's greatness... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - 1992 - 596 strani
...growing out of a lengthy tour of the States, he wrote that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." Tocqueville was struck, however, not just by the simple fact of Christianity but by its character.... | |
 | Marylin Irvin Holt - 1994 - 278 strani
...Alexis de Tocqueville, his conclusions of the 1830s were as applicable, if not more so, in the 1850s: "[There is] no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains greater influence over the souls of men than in America."22 This concern with religious life and the... | |
 | Harold J. Berman - 2000 - 432 strani
...religious freedom. In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: "[T]here is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America. . . ,"18 In 1888, James Bryce wrote that "the influence of Christianity seems to be, if we look not... | |
 | David B. Chesebrough - 1994 - 244 strani
...French visitor to America, Alexis de Tocqueville, observed that there was "no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." Irving H. Bartlett, in his brief but insightful study The American Mind in the Mid—Nineteenth Century,... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 strani
...sojourn in this unique Republic, de Tocqueville had become convinced that there existed no country "where the Christian religion retains a greater influence...conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth."119 NOTES 1. Walter Lippmann,... | |
 | Steven Mintz - 1995 - 214 strani
...In his classic Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, the famous French commentator, observed: "There is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America." The chief vehicle for this unique outpouring of religious faith was the religious revival. Even before... | |
 | Lance J. Sussman - 1996 - 324 strani
...Tocqueville observed upon his arrival in the Unites States in 1831 that "there "is no country in the world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."8 From his vantage point in Richmond, Leeser observed and internalized the great issues of... | |
 | David Thomas Konig - 1995 - 396 strani
...of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men ... there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." 68 To understand this conflation of materialism and spirituality, we must alter the traditional terms... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - 1995 - 288 strani
...a lengthy tour in the states, he expressed the opinion that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." (CMS, 7.9) Tocqueville was struck, however, not just by the simple feet of Christianity in the United... | |
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