Freedom's surety.(Book Review)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February, 2005 by Elshtain, Jean Bethke

AMERICAN PROVIDENCE: A NATION WITH A MISSION By STEPHEN H. WEBB Continuum. 173pp. $22.95.

PERHAPS STEPHEN WEBB should have added a question mark after the word "mission" in the subtitle of his brisk and engaging book, American Providence: A Nation with a Mission. But perhaps he did not need to, as the question mark is assumed. Is God using America to accomplish something special in the world? "Sophisticated people just do not talk that way. The cultural elite dismiss the doctrine of providence as the illusory product of fundamentalist fantasies. Providence is ...