American Society of Church History

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L’imagerie biblique issue du courant messianique protestant joue un rôle dans la formation des attitudes américaines envers la Palestine depuis le XIXe siècle. Cependant, depuis 1967, la présence du protestantisme conservateur en Terre Sainte s’est renforcée considérablement, et la foi évangélique millénariste a joué un rôle décisif dans la formulation d’une prise de position politique de cette partie de la chrétienté américaine vis-à-vis du conflit arabo-israélien et vis-à-vis du Moyen-Orient en général. C’est surtout depuis la fin de la Guerre froide que le courant chrétien millénariste et pro-israélien est devenu l’un des éléments les plus importants dans la formulation de la politique américaine au Moyen-Orient.

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The bicentennial of the American Bill of Rights offers an appropriate occasion to reassess its intellectual heritage. British radicals, I will argue, had a major impact on the principles enunciated in the Bill of Rights, including the rarely cited ninth amendment, so crucial for the resolution of such sociolegal issues as the rights to life and privacy and the place of religion in society. By radicals I mean those who sought fundamental changes in politics, religion, society, or the economy by striking at the root of contemporary assumptions and institutions.

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