The reason we are a “divided nation” today is that we have lost the ‘glue’ of unity that bound the nation together despite enormous cultural and religious diversity. This volume, The Biblical Foundations of the Constitution, presents the nature of that ‘glue:’ a shared understanding of natural and moral law that held the highest regard for Christian principles and morality. The theology preached and taught planted those principles generationally in the hearts and minds to form a free nation.
The Biblical Foundations of the Constitution completes the narrative begun in The Christian History of the Constitution Volumes I and II. It answers the question: How did the Constitution of the United States come into existence, and what are its many foundational elements rooted in the Bible?
Verna Hall created the vision for this concluding volume to complete the history with the theology that undergirds the principle of the American Republic.
The narrative of Volumes I and II conclude in 1775 with the colonies on the cusp of declaring their “independency” from Great Britain. The colonies were united in a Continental Congress but had not yet bound themselves in a “perpetual league of friendship” under the Articles of Confederation. It is there that Volume III picks up the narrative.
Part 1 covers the newly independent states under the Articles of Confederation. What problems were encountered under the authority of the Articles of Confederation calling for a a new plan of government to correct deficiencies?
Part 2 shows how America’s pastors “prepared the ground” for a new government plan by educating their congregations on the Bible’s principles concerning good government and governance.
Part 3 details the Biblical foundations embedded in the U.S. Constitution. How did America’s founders view these foundational principles?
In Part 4, the reader encounters several “prophets” warning of incipient changes occurring as long as 100 years ago in American constitutional thought and the effects those changes would have on liberty in the United States.
Why We Must Remember, A Study of Psalm 78
American Christians need a wakeup call; we have lost our first love. This is Verna Hall’s short excerpt.
“If American Christians will accept the responsibility for our nation’s situation and see that our forgetting God’s works, God’s actions, is the primal cause of our problems, then the repenting of this sin of omission, coupled with the willingness to learn what God has done—the events of history—will begin, with the Lord’s blessing, the restoring and rebuilding of our nation. But the individual American Christian’s activity must be TWOFOLD—it is not enough to repent and be sorry. The proof of the genuineness of repentance lies in the second step: the willingness to take time to learn. This is always the Christian’s stumbling block—willingness to study, learn, and change his way of life. Here is where the character’s struggle lies. Here is where the battle for the survival of Constitutional America and all she stands for concerning the gospel—here in the character of the American Christian is the battleground for the survival of America.”
If the Foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do? Psalm 11:3
This hardcover edition features a red vellum hardcover with a gold stamped, embossed eagle designed by Paul Revere and is 342 pages. Retail price $42.95.
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