American Messianism

Course Code: HUMC2610

Start Date: 02/06/2026

Day of the Week:

Tuesday

Session: Morning

Delivery method: Centre Only

Length in weeks: 5

Time: 10am-12pm

Price: £

The concepts of American messianism, election and destiny have been constants in American self-understanding, and of their self-projection to the world. Onwards from the time of the Pilgrim Fathers, with their ambition to create ‘a city on the hill’, the vocation ‘to do God’s work on earth’  has never been far from American minds and policy-making. To others it more often appears to be delusions of grandeur.