| 词条 | City upon a Hill |
| 释义 |
"A City upon a Hill" is a phrase from the parable of Salt and Light in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount. In 14, he tells his listeners, "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden." "A Model of Christian Charity"This scripture was cited at the end of Puritan John Winthrop's lecture or treatise, "A Model of Christian Charity" delivered on March 21, 1630 at Holyrood Church in Southampton before his first group of Massachusetts Bay colonists embarked on the ship Arbella to settle Boston.[1][2] Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans that their new community would be "as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us", meaning, if the Puritans failed to uphold their covenant with God, then their sins and errors would be exposed for all the world to see: "So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world". Winthrop's lecture was forgotten for nearly two hundred years until the Massachusetts Historical Society published it in 1838. It remained an obscure reference for more than another century until Cold War era historians and political leaders made it relevant to their time, crediting Winthrop's text as the foundational document of the idea of American exceptionalism.[3] Use in United States politicsOn 9 January 1961, President-Elect John F. Kennedy quoted the phrase during an address delivered to the General Court of Massachusetts:[4] {{quote|... I have been guided by the standard John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arabella (sic) three hundred and thirty-one years ago, as they, too, faced the task of building a new government on a perilous frontier. "We must always consider", he said, "that we shall be as a city upon a hill—the eyes of all people are upon us". Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us—and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill—constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities. For we are setting out upon a voyage in 1961 no less hazardous than that undertaken by the Arabella (sic) in 1630. We are committing ourselves to tasks of statecraft no less awesome than that of governing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, beset as it was then by terror without and disorder within. History will not judge our endeavors—and a government cannot be selected—merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these. For of those to whom much is given, much is required ...[5]}}On November 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan referred to the same event and image in his Election Eve Address "A Vision for America" {{quote |I have quoted John Winthrop's words more than once on the campaign trail this year—for I believe that Americans in 1980 are every bit as committed to that vision of a shining "city on a hill," as were those long ago settlers ...These visitors to that city on the Potomac do not come as white or black, red or yellow; they are not Jews or Christians; conservatives or liberals; or Democrats or Republicans. They are Americans awed by what has gone before, proud of what for them is still… a shining city on a hill.[6]}} and in his January 11, 1989, farewell speech to the nation: {{quote |I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.[7]}}U.S. Senator Barack Obama also made reference to the topic in his commencement address on June 2, 2006 at the University of Massachusetts Boston:[8] {{quote |It was right here, in the waters around us, where the American experiment began. As the earliest settlers arrived on the shores of Boston and Salem and Plymouth, they dreamed of building a City upon a Hill. And the world watched, waiting to see if this improbable idea called America would succeed.More than half of you represent the very first member of your family to ever attend college. In the most diverse university in all of New England, I look out at a sea of faces that are African-American and Hispanic-American and Asian-American and Arab-American. I see students that have come here from over 100 different countries, believing like those first settlers that they too could find a home in this City on a Hill—that they too could find success in this unlikeliest of places.}} In 2016, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney incorporated the idiom into a condemnation of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign: {{quote |His domestic policies would lead to recession; his foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president, and his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.[9]}}During the 2016 presidential race, Texas Senator Ted Cruz used the phrase during his speech announcing the suspension of his campaign.[10] President Barack Obama also alluded to President Ronald Reagan's use of the phrase during his speech at the Democratic National Convention the same year, as he proposed a vision of America in contrast to that of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.[11] In 2017, former FBI Director James Comey used the phrase in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee:[12] Use in Australian politicsIn Australian politics, the similar phrase "the light on the hill" was famously used in a 1949 conference speech by then Prime Minister Ben Chifley, and as a consequence this phrase is used to describe the objective of the Australian Labor Party. It has often been referenced by both journalists and political leaders in that context since this time.{{cn|date=May 2018}} See also{{wikisource}}
References1. ^Bremer, Francis, J., John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 171. It is often stated that the sermon was written aboard the flagship Arabella and delivered in Boston harbor, an error introduced by a cover letter on an early manuscript not in Winthrop's hand when the sermon was first published. 2. ^Winthrop, John, The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649, Harvard University Press, 1996, p.1 note 1 3. ^Daniel T. Rodgers, As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon, Princeton University Press, 2018; and Richard M. Gamble, In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth, Continuum, 2012. 4. ^{{cite news |title=The President-Elect: City Upon a Hill |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871951,00.html |newspaper=Time |date=1961-01-20 |accessdate=2015-09-16 |issn=0040-781X}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/ |title=Address of President-Elect John F. Kennedy Delivered to a Joint Convention of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |publisher=Kennedy Library}} 6. ^{{cite web |title=Election Eve Address "A Vision for America" |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=85199 |website=The American Presidency Project |publisher=UC Santa Barbara |accessdate=November 21, 2015}} 7. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/011189i |title=Farewell Address to the Nation |website=reaganlibrary.archives.gov}} 8. ^{{cite web |url=http://obamaspeeches.com/074-University-of-Massachusetts-at-Boston-Commencement-Address-Obama-Speech.htm |title=Obama Speech – University of Massachusetts at Boston Commencement Address |website=obamaspeeches.com}} 9. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD8KZP30MvM |title=Romney: Trump playing Americans for suckers |publisher=YouTube |date=March 3, 2016 |accessdate=March 17, 2016}} 10. ^{{Cite news |url=http://time.com/4317340/ted-cruz-drops-out-suspends-campaign-speech-transcript/ |title=Read Ted Cruz's Speech on Dropping Out of the Presidential Race |last=Beckwith |first=Ryan Teague |date=3 May 2016 |website=Time |accessdate=2017-03-20}} 11. ^{{Cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-2016-obama-prepared-remarks-226345 |title=Full text: President Obama's DNC speech |date=27 July 2016 |work=Politico |accessdate=2017-03-20}} 12. ^{{cite news |title=Full Transcript and Video: James Comey’s Testimony on Capitol Hill |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearing-transcript.html |accessdate=20 June 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=8 June 2017}} Further reading
|title=As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon |last=Rodgers|first=Daniel T.|authorlink=Daniel_T._Rodgers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dz1hDwAAQBAJ |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-691-18437-1 }}
| url = http://blog.nyhistory.org/21991-2/ | title = John Winthrop's "City upon a hill" Sermon and an "Erasure of Collective Memory" | author = Edward O’Reilly | date = December 5, 2018 | publisher = New-York Historical Society | accessdate = February 18, 2019 }}{{DEFAULTSORT:City Upon A Hill}} 9 : 17th-century neologisms|1989 speeches|English phrases|Biblical phrases|Christian terminology|Quotations|American political philosophy|Speeches by Ronald Reagan|American exceptionalism |
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