Even as Emerson defines genuine scholarship and the American Scholar with disdain for the number of degrees and pieces of paper as a false proof that many flaunt in our faces today in order to snow and impress, so American Studies must be defined more in terms of the “History of American Thought” (from history or literature}, updated all the way to the New generations of the New World; and in the words of Spurgeon “let none be such a wiseacre as to think they have nothing to learn from the past”, American studies returning to the classical trends, like an anchor for scholarship, of men like Commager in “The American Mind”, Persons in “American Minds”, Parrington in “Main Currents of American Thought”, Gabriel in “The Course of American Democratic Thought” and Merle Curti in “The Growth of American Thought”. NOTE: “Main Doctrines of the American Democratic Faith” should be the standard for Christians as it points out effectively the difference between The American Democratic Faith which as citizens we all love and respect, and Christian Faith which must have the priority. Bare min as these men and their books did for American scholarship and American Scholars, so American Studies must include American religion, literature, economics, history, political science, pure science and math with computers, and sociology. Those today who desire to make real scholastic contributions to American society should consider ways to relief the economic pressures on most Americans created by the disparity between the 10% wealthy and the rest, and strive to deal with the greed and wealth that grows and creates all this disparity and pressure! Amazingly Jeremiah and Prophesy dealt with the similar problems, and you can read about it in NATIONAL DENS OF THIEVES, Jeremiah and Prophesy, NDT for short. The prosperous and Gospel of Prosperity preachers of today would justify and spread their philosophy like a virus, especially in churches and denominations {this keeps the world and worldly happy even as the false Prophets of Jeremiah’s days only preached “peace” and “prosperity”}… …they promote greed and more greed in terms of |
American Studies and The American Scholar “To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.” Santayana |
Navigation Bar Below for all Q&A search questions and answers during the past 9 years, considered to be a good sample of Modern Main Currents of American Thought. See the Google+ Community by that name. Also you will find the indexes during the 9 years as much research is hidden there. |
