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Jeremiad

Jeremiad. A rhetoric of indignation, expressing deep dissatisfaction and urgently challenging people to reform. Context. Rooted in Jeremiah’s warnings to the Israelites, the Jeremiad maintains that Americans are a chosen people with a historic mission to save and remake the world. Structure.

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Jeremiad

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  1. Jeremiad A rhetoric of indignation, expressing deep dissatisfaction and urgently challenging people to reform.

  2. Context Rooted in Jeremiah’s warnings to the Israelites, the Jeremiad maintains that Americans are a chosen people with a historic mission to save and remake the world.

  3. Structure Citing the promise usually this is rooted in biblical allusion Bradford called it “God’s Providence”

  4. Criticism of the present declension or retrogression from the promise This is where the dramatic threats come in—”hell, fire and brimstone”

  5. Prophecy that society will complete its mission and redeem the promise. Restatement of America’s unique mission: Winthrop’s “City on the Hill”

  6. Conclusion • The Jeremiad’s consistent idea is that God will use the unhappy situation to spur people to reform and fulfill their divine destiny.

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