A Fiery Gospel

Author : Richard M. Gamble
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501736421

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A Fiery Gospel by Richard M. Gamble Pdf

Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Testaments, and fewer still think about the implications of that apocalyptic language for how Americans interpret who they are and what they owe the world. In A Fiery Gospel, Richard M. Gamble describes how this camp-meeting tune, paired with Howe's evocative lyrics, became one of the most effective instruments of religious nationalism. He takes the reader back to the song's origins during the Civil War, and reveals how those political and military circumstances launched the song's incredible career in American public life. Gamble deftly considers the idea behind the song—humming the tune, reading the music for us—all while reveling in the multiplicity of meanings of and uses to which Howe's lyrics have been put. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been versatile enough to match the needs of Civil Rights activists and conservative nationalists, war hawks and peaceniks, as well as Europeans and Americans. This varied career shows readers much about the shifting shape of American righteousness. Yet it is, argues Gamble, the creator of the song herself—her Abolitionist household, Unitarian theology, and Romantic and nationalist sensibilities—that is the true conductor of this most American of war songs. A Fiery Gospel depicts most vividly the surprising genealogy of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and its sure and certain position as a cultural piece in the uncertain amalgam that was and is American civil religion.

Author : Alexander GROSSE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1645
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021098642

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A fiery pillar of heavenly truth: shewing the way to a blessed life ... Second edition by Alexander GROSSE Pdf

Author : Richard M. Gamble
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497646797

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The War for Righteousness by Richard M. Gamble Pdf

“They died to save their country and they only saved the world.” This line, the final one in G. K. Chesterton’s poem “The English Graves,” serves for Richard M. Gamble as an interpretive key to a peculiarly important moment in American history: the time of the First World War, when progressive Christian leaders in America transformed themselves from principled pacifists to crusading interventionists. The consequence of this momentous shift, says Gamble, was the triumph of the idea that America has been destined by divine Providence to bring salvation to the less enlightened nations of the world. In The War for Righteousness, Gamble reconstructs the inner world of the social gospel clergy, tracing the evolution of the clergy’s interventionist ideology from its roots in earlier efforts to promote a modern, activist Christianity. He shows how these clergy eventually came to see their task as world evangelization for the new creed of democracy and internationalism, and ultimately for the redemption of civilization itself through the agency of total war. World War I thus became a transcendent moment of fulfillment. In the eyes of the progressive clergy, the years from 1914 to 1918 presented an unprecedented opportunity to achieve their vision of a world transformed—the ancient dream of a universal and everlasting kingdom of peace, justice, and righteousness. American sacrifice was necessary not only to save the country, but to save the entire world. Vividly narrating how the progressive clergy played a surprising role in molding the public consensus in favor of total war, Gamble engages the broader question of religion’s role in shaping the modern American mind and the development, at the deepest levels, of the logic of messianic interventionism both at home and abroad. This timely book not only fills a significant gap in our collective memory of the Great War, it also helps demonstrate how and why that war heralded the advent of a different American self-understanding.

Author : James Wells (Minister at Surrey Tabernacle.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000700962

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Twenty-four Lectures on the Book of Revelation by James Wells (Minister at Surrey Tabernacle.) Pdf

Author : James Wells (minister of the Surrey tabernacle.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:591039886

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Twenty-four lectures on the book of Revelation by James Wells (minister of the Surrey tabernacle.) Pdf

Author : Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310586180

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America's Religious History by Thomas S. Kidd Pdf

Religion, race, and American history. America's Religious History is an up-to-date, narrative-based introduction to the unique role of faith in American history. Moving beyond present-day polemics to understand the challenges and nuances of our religious past, leading historian Thomas S. Kidd interweaves religious history and key events from the larger story of American history, including: The Great Awakening The American Revolution Slavery and the Civil War Civil rights and church-state controversy Immigration, religious diversity, and the culture wars Useful for both classroom and personal study, America's Religious History provides a balanced, authoritative assessment of how faith has shaped American life and politics.

Author : Jonathan Kienzler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004397200

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The Fiery Holy Spirit by Jonathan Kienzler Pdf

The baptism with the Spirit and fire has been a major area of study by theologians and has been pursued by the historical church seeking God’s holiness and power; yet its relationship to judgment has often been ignored. This book explores the Holy Spirit’s relationship with judgment in Luke-Acts through seven texts: Luke 3:16–17; 12:8–10; Acts 5:1–11; 7:51; 8:18–23; 13:9–11; 28:25–28. In these texts, the Holy Spirit is connected with fire, unforgiveness, deception, resistance, greed, blindness, or condemnation. In each instance, Luke’s presentation is examined to determine the Spirit’s role in the process of judgment. Through the Spirit, Jesus judges, cleanses, purges, and divides his people from the world. Luke portrays the Spirit as the executive power of Jesus’ reign as judge, exposing, opposing, and condemning those who reject the gospel.

Author : Florence Howe Hall
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387301243

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The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic by Florence Howe Hall Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Hymns
ISBN : NYPL:33433068259559

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The Tabernacle Chorus ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gladys Scaife
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606478868

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Great Tribulation a Fiery Trial Can You Escape It? by Gladys Scaife Pdf

This book is about the physical war that's coming upon the earth between Jehovah God of heaven with His Christ, against Satan the antichrist, the god of this world. Satan will enact a war upon the inhabitants of the earth for their destruction. In the beginning, the angel Lucifer aka Satan, rebelled in the Kingdom of God causing destructions upon the earth and Man. Satan warred with God in heaven, lost the war and was cast out to the earth. Satan took Adam's seat of authority and posterity by deception, in the garden of Eden, transferring the creation of Man unto himself to rule. This war will cause a catastrophic global upheaval before Satan's eviction into the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Gladys Scaife has the talent of a teacher. She writes Christian books in a non-traditional fashion to reiterate the prophecies and visions sent to mankind by the God of heaven. Through a book ministry, she helps believers and the world to better understand their beginning and their end in the Kingdom of God upon the earth. Her books bring attention once again to latter day revelation knowledge for mankind to know their end. She has been given the charge by God to prepare the people on the earth with what He has purposed for the latter days. Her books give understanding for reformation of the current endtime knowledge of God's word.

Author : Andrew L. Whitehead,Samuel L. Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190057886

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Taking America Back for God by Andrew L. Whitehead,Samuel L. Perry Pdf

Why do white Protestants in America embrace a president who seems to violate their basic standards of morality? The answer, Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry argue, is "Christian nationalism," the belief that the United States is -- and should be -- a Christian nation. Knowing someone's stance on Christian nationalism, this book shows, tells us more about his or her political beliefs than race, religion, or political party. Drawing on national survey data and interviews with Americans across the political spectrum, Taking America Back for God illustrates the tremendous influence of Christian nationalism on debates about the most contentious issues dominating American public life.

Author : Richard COPPIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1659
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021026822

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Michael opposing the Dragon: or, a Fiery Dart struck through the Heart of the Kingdome of the Serpent. Shewing the Saints Eternal Glory over the Serpents Misery ... Being a Reply to Edward Garland's Answer of a book, Intitled, A Blow at the Serpent, etc by Richard COPPIN Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : OSU:32435079299665

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Airman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Reinhard Bonnke
Publisher : CFAN Publications
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : PKEY:CF30

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Living a Life of Fire by Reinhard Bonnke Pdf

Living a Life of Fire is more than simple facts about an evangelist's life, it is filled with adventures from the heart of Africa, real-life dramatic stories of people and places that will leave you on the edge of your seat, and powerful demonstrations of the Holy Spirit working in the here and now. An autobiography of the life of one of God's generals that has left a legacy that is still impacting nations today.

Author : John Stauffer,Benjamin Soskis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199837441

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The Battle Hymn of the Republic by John Stauffer,Benjamin Soskis Pdf

It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001. Perhaps no other song has held such a profoundly significant--and contradictory--place in America's history and cultural memory than the "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." In this sweeping study, John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis show how this Civil War tune has become an anthem for cause after radically different cause. The song originated in antebellum revivalism, with the melody of the camp-meeting favorite, "Say Brothers, Will You Meet Us." Union soldiers in the Civil War then turned it into "John Brown's Body." Julia Ward Howe, uncomfortable with Brown's violence and militancy, wrote the words we know today. Using intense apocalyptic and millenarian imagery, she captured the popular enthusiasm of the time, the sense of a climactic battle between good and evil; yet she made no reference to a particular time or place, allowing it to be exported or adapted to new conflicts, including Reconstruction, sectional reconciliation, imperialism, progressive reform, labor radicalism, civil rights movements, and social conservatism. And yet the memory of the song's original role in bloody and divisive Civil War scuttled an attempt to make it the national anthem. The Daughters of the Confederacy held a contest for new lyrics, but admitted that none of the entries measured up to the power of the original. "The Battle Hymn" has long helped to express what we mean when we talk about sacrifice, about the importance of fighting--in battles both real and allegorical--for the values America represents. It conjures up and confirms some of our most profound conceptions of national identity and purpose. And yet, as Stauffer and Soskis note, the popularity of the song has not relieved it of the tensions present at its birth--tensions between unity and discord, and between the glories and the perils of righteous enthusiasm. If anything, those tensions became more profound. By following this thread through the tapestry of American history, The Battle Hymn of the Republic illuminates the fractures and contradictions that underlie the story of our nation.