ABSTRACT
The achievement of political independence by the United States was taken by Ezra Stiles (1727-1795), clergyman, scholar and President of Yale, as laying the foundation for the ultimate Christianization of the world. He was tolerant of the various Protestant denominations and sects and he saw the American model of religious liberty combined with a free and stable civil society as already having influence in Europe. He projected this influence as leading to a purified and simplified Christianity in Europe and the wider world. The United States was now the storehouse of wisdom and practice from which the rest of the world would draw.
