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Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Regent College Pub
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1573833339
Noll examines the influence of various religious convictions on the movement for independence and, conversely, the effect of the Revolution on colonial church bodies and their understanding of Christian truth.
Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037114662
Author : James P. Byrd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190697563
Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon. God Almighty, with all the powers of heaven, are on our side, Sherwood said, voicing a sacred justification for war that Americans would invoke repeatedly throughout the struggle for independence. In Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, James Byrd offers the first comprehensive analysis of how American revolutionaries defended their patriotic convictions through scripture. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the American Revolution. Indeed, many colonists saw the Bible as primarily a book about war. They viewed God as not merely sanctioning violence but actively participating in combat, playing a decisive role on the battlefield. When war came, preachers and patriots alike turned to scripture not only for solace but for exhortations to fight. Such scripture helped amateur soldiers overcome their natural aversion to killing, conferred on those who died for the Revolution the halo of martyrdom, and gave Americans a sense of the divine providence of their cause. Many histories of the Revolution have noted the connection between religion and war, but Sacred Scripture, Sacred War is the first to provide a detailed analysis of specific biblical texts and how they were used, especially in making the patriotic case for war. Combing through more than 500 wartime sources, which include more than 17,000 biblical citations, Byrd shows precisely how the Bible shaped American war, and how war in turn shaped Americans' view of the Bible. Brilliantly researched and cogently argued, Sacred Scripture, Sacred War sheds new light on the American Revolution.
Author : Thomas S Kidd
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465022779
A "thought-provoking, meticulously researched" testament to evangelical Christians' crucial contribution to American independence and a timely appeal for the same spiritual vitality today (Washington Times). At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, America was already a nation of diverse faiths-the First Great Awakening and Enlightenment concepts such as deism and atheism had endowed the colonists with varying and often opposed religious beliefs. Despite their differences, however, Americans found common ground against British tyranny and formed an alliance that would power the American Revolution. In God of Liberty, historian Thomas S. Kidd offers the first comprehensive account of religion's role during this transformative period and how it gave form to our nation and sustained it through its tumultuous birth -- and how it can be a force within our country during times of transition today.
Author : Foundation for American Christian Education,Verna M. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:642064603
Author : Katherine Carté
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469662657
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex transatlantic system that bound religious institutions to imperial politics. As Katherine Carte argues, British imperial protestantism proved remarkably effective in advancing both the interests of empire and the cause of religion until the war for American independence disrupted it. That Revolution forced a reassessment of the role of religion in public life on both sides of the Atlantic. Religious communities struggled to reorganize within and across new national borders. Religious leaders recalibrated their relationships to government. If these shifts were more pronounced in the United States than in Britain, the loss of a shared system nonetheless mattered to both nations. Sweeping and explicitly transatlantic, Religion and the American Revolution demonstrates that if religion helped set the terms through which Anglo-Americans encountered the imperial crisis and the violence of war, it likewise set the terms through which both nations could imagine the possibilities of a new world.
Author : Daniel S. Stackhouse Jr. Ph. D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1635759544
Often when the subject of religion and the American Revolution is written about or discussed, people fall into one of two camps. The first proclaims that America was founded as a Christian nation based upon the Bible and its teachings. Meanwhile, the other declares that America was created as a completely secular country and that Christianity, the Bible, God, and Jesus had absolutely nothing to do with it. In Rebellion to Tyrants Is Obedience to God: The Role of Christianity in the American Revolution, Daniel S. Stackhouse Jr. argues that Christianity played a significant role in the creation of the American republic. While acknowledging that the revolution birthed a nation with a secular constitution and therefore a secular government, Stackhouse also presents evidence that Christian thought, preaching, and practice helped to create and sustain colonial resistance to British policies and lead to the founding of the United States of America.
Author : Verna M. Hall
Publisher : Foundation for Amer Christian
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0912498048
Accounts from original documents, as well as commentary from Verna Hall, enable the reader to understand the heart of the spirit of Liberty as it comes from the Word of God and the connection to American political liberty. The Colonists were engaged in a Constitutional debate to determine their Biblical basis for the American Revolution. This volume is indispensable to the student in comprehending God's vision for liberty and government, his responsibility as a Christian citizen, and the standard to which we must hold our leaders to sustain our Constitutional Republic.
Author : Matthew Harris,Thomas Kidd
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195326499
Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history. Historians Matthew Harris and Thomas Kidd offer an authoritative examination of the essential documents needed to understand this debate. The texts included in this volume - writings and speeches from both well-known and obscure early American thinkers - show that religion played a prominent yet fractious role in the era of the American Revolution. In their personal beliefs, the Founders ranged from profound skeptics like Thomas Paine to traditional Christians like Patrick Henry. Nevertheless, most of the Founding Fathers rallied around certain crucial religious principles, including the idea that people were "created" equal, the belief that religious freedom required the disestablishment of state-backed denominations, the necessity of virtue in a republic, and the role of Providence in guiding the affairs of nations. Harris and Kidd show that through the struggles of war and the framing of the Constitution, Americans sought to reconcile their dedication to religious vitality with their commitment to religious freedom.
Author : Frank Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Clergy
ISBN : YALE:39002004958741
Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Clergy
ISBN : BL:A0021955055
Author : Rod Gragg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451623529
Based on meticulous research into the correspondence and documentation of the founding fathers from the crafting of the Declaration of Independence to the signing of the peace treaty with Britain, this book sheds light on how the Judeo-Christian world view motivated America's founding fathers.
Author : G. Adolf Koch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725225558
Author : Gary L. Steward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197565377
Historians have debated how the clergy's support for political resistance during the American Revolution should be understood, often looking to influence outside of the clergy's tradition. This book argues, however, that the position of the patriot clergy was in continuity with a long-standing tradition of Protestant resistance. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy's Argument for Political Resistance, 1750-1776 answers the question of why so many American clergyman found it morally and ethically right to support resistance to British political authority by exploring the theological background and rich Protestant history available to the American clergy as they considered political resistance and wrestled with the best course of action for them and their congregations. Gary L. Steward argues that, rather than deviating from their inherited modes of thought, the clergy who supported resistance did so in ways that were consistent with their own theological tradition.
Author : John Fanestil
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781506474144
One Life to Give explores martyrdom from its classical and Christian origins to the onset of the Revolutionary War. Fanestil shows how martyrdom animated many personal commitments to American independence, and thereby to the war. Understanding the role of martyrdom helps the reader grasp the origins of the American Revolution.
