2:2 City upon a Hill
Throughout the “Contract Over and Over Again” chapter by Lutz, the discussion regarding the differing spiritual beliefs between the Indigenous and the Europeans during contact reminded of the famous phrase from Matthew 5:14 that Puritan John Winthrop had preached to his settler followers prior to the founding of Boston. “A City upon a Hill” While I don’t want to make sweeping assumptions over all settlers arriving in North America or all Europeans of faith at that time, this sense of exceptionalism as a god-given right and purpose does…read more