Preachers Present Arms

Author : Ray H. Abrams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606089354

Get Book

Preachers Present Arms by Ray H. Abrams Pdf

Preachers Present Arms is the result of many years of research in libraries, religious periodicals (including many obscure ones), newspaper clippings, innumerable pamphlets, sermons, and addresses of the war periods. Pertinent books on the subject run into the hundreds of volumes. Many of the startling facts in Preachers Present Arms are the result of personal interviews and correspondence both at home and abroad. Over the span of nearly two thousand years, the institution of the Christian church has been eager to convert the whole world to its own interpretation of the will of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. In so doing it has been confronted with one crisis after another. Most of the time, as the pages of history will testify, it has floundered in utmost confusion. From one point of view, its gravest and most tragic years have been those in which this church identified itself and participated gladly in some of the bloodiest wars of all times, all to carry out the will of the Almighty. The Crusades and Holy Wars of the past are stark reminders. Yet, even in our own time these holy wars continue. This book is the startling and terrifying story of the part played in this country by the churches and the clergy during the first World War-the consciences of ministers conscripted, innocent men railroaded to prison, churches turned into recruiting stations. In Preachers Present Arms a skilled analyst of social forces examines the merciless regimentation of ideas and conduct inherent in modern warfare. His sobering account of the surrender of the ministers to war hysteria in that dark period of the world's history-from 1914 to 1918-is in no sense an attack upon the clergy. Rather, in demonstrating how preachers were caught in the vortex of war madness, the book transcends the immediate field of its inquiry and demonstrates the influence of war psychology on the leaders and molders of public opinion. Included in this thought-provoking volume is a brief description of the churches and the clergy in World War II, and an analysis of the situation with respect to organized religion and our participation in the war in Vietnam.

Author : Ray Hamilton Abrams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Propaganda, American
ISBN : OCLC:191852035

Get Book

Preachers Present Arms by Ray Hamilton Abrams Pdf

Author : Ray H. Abrams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0598710817

Get Book

Preachers Present Arms by Ray H. Abrams Pdf

Author : Emil Ernst Erich Folgmann,John Kenson Simons,Kenneth Miles,Lester Earl Klimm,Marion Elderton,Ray Hamilton Abrams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Attitude (Psychology)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173014692574

Get Book

Preachers Present Arms by Emil Ernst Erich Folgmann,John Kenson Simons,Kenneth Miles,Lester Earl Klimm,Marion Elderton,Ray Hamilton Abrams Pdf

Author : Ray Hamilton Abrams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013937555

Get Book

Preachers Present Arms by Ray Hamilton Abrams Pdf

Author : Melissa M. Matthes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674988194

Get Book

When Sorrow Comes by Melissa M. Matthes Pdf

Since World War II, Protestant sermons have been an influential tool for defining American citizenship in the wake of national crises. In the aftermath of national tragedies, Americans often turn to churches for solace. Because even secular citizens attend these services, they are also significant opportunities for the Protestant religious majority to define and redefine national identity and, in the process, to invest the nation-state with divinity. The sermons delivered in the wake of crises become integral to historical and communal memory—it matters greatly who is mourned and who is overlooked. Melissa M. Matthes conceives of these sermons as theo-political texts. In When Sorrow Comes, she explores the continuities and discontinuities they reveal in the balance of state power and divine authority following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassinations of JFK and MLK, the Rodney King verdict, the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, the Newtown shootings, and the Black Lives Matter movement. She argues that Protestant preachers use these moments to address questions about Christianity and citizenship and about the responsibilities of the Church and the State to respond to a national crisis. She also shows how post-crisis sermons have codified whiteness in ritual narratives of American history, excluding others from the collective account. These civic liturgies therefore illustrate the evolution of modern American politics and society. Despite perceptions of the decline of religious authority in the twentieth century, the pulpit retains power after national tragedies. Sermons preached in such intense times of mourning and reckoning serve as a form of civic education with consequences for how Americans understand who belongs to the nation and how to imagine its future.

Author : Joseph Loconte
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742578241

Get Book

The End of Illusions by Joseph Loconte Pdf

The rise of Islamic radicalism has led to heated discussions about how best to address the threat of religious terror. Disputes covering the right and wrong of war with Iraq, and the even bigger war on terrorism, continue to rage across America. But this is not the first argument of this nature—America was faced with a similar moral dilemma on the eve of World War II. Fascism was conquering Europe, and religious leaders across the nation vehemently debated how to confront Nazi Germany. In The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm, Joseph Loconte brings together pieces from the most significant religious thinkers of the pre-war period. In these essays, the writers eloquently and passionately present their arguments for going to war or maintaining the peace. In doing so, they explore issues vibrantly relevant today, including the Christian cause for war, the problem of evil, and America's role in the world. These urgently written pieces connect the past with the present and resonate with renewed clarity and poignancy.

Author : Charles Hunter Hamlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Education
ISBN : WISC:89100031459

Get Book

Educators Present Arms by Charles Hunter Hamlin Pdf

Author : Andrew Preston
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307375698

Get Book

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith by Andrew Preston Pdf

A first major work of history on a crucial but under-examined topic, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith explores the role of religion in American foreign policy. From the first colonists to the presidents of the 21st Century, Andrew Preston's unparalleled study show us how religion has always shaped America's relationships with other nations, and what to expect in the future. During the presidency of George W. Bush, many Americans and others around the world viewed the entrance of religion into foreign policy discourse, especially with regard to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a "new" development. But despite the official division between church and state, the presence of religion in American foreign policy has been a constant since before the Founding Fathers. Yet aside from leaders known to be personally religious, such as Bush, Jimmy Carter and Woodrow Wilson, few realize how central faith has always been to American governance and diplomacy--and indeed to the idea of America itself. In Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith, Andrew Preston starts at the beginning, and with revelatory findings, shows us how and why.

Author : Jerry Bergman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781532660696

Get Book

God in Eisenhower’s Life, Military Career, and Presidency by Jerry Bergman Pdf

As the Supreme Allied Commander in the fight against the Nazis, General Dwight Eisenhower was one of the most important leaders of the last century. His position as a five-star general was crucial in achieving a positive outcome in World War II. Today, he is considered one of the most respected US presidents, but the critical role that his religious beliefs played in his life and work is widely ignored. As one historian wrote, Eisenhower was the most religious president in the twentieth century. He was critical in influencing the nation's enlarged accommodation to faith, specifically the Christian faith. The central role Eisenhower's faith played in his life, from growing up in Abilene, Kansas, to becoming the most powerful leader in the world, is thoroughly documented for the first time in this book. Indeed, Eisenhower's belief in God made him who he was and allowed him to achieve the work that made him one of the most respected leaders of the free world. This book sets the record straight about common erroneous beliefs concerning President Eisenhower and his family. It is necessary to understand the forces that shaped him so we can put his life and many achievements into perspective.

Author : Christine Rosen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198035640

Get Book

Preaching Eugenics by Christine Rosen Pdf

With our success in mapping the human genome, the possibility of altering our genetic futures has given rise to difficult ethical questions. Although opponents of genetic manipulation frequently raise the specter of eugenics, our contemporary debates about bioethics often take place in a historical vacuum. In fact, American religious leaders raised similarly challenging ethical questions in the first half of the twentieth century. Preaching Eugenics tells how Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish leaders confronted and, in many cases, enthusiastically embraced eugenics-a movement that embodied progressive attitudes about modern science at the time. Christine Rosen argues that religious leaders pursued eugenics precisely when they moved away from traditional religious tenets. The liberals and modernists-those who challenged their churches to embrace modernity-became the eugenics movement's most enthusiastic supporters. Their participation played an important part in the success of the American eugenics movement. In the early twentieth century, leaders of churches and synagogues were forced to defend their faiths on many fronts. They faced new challenges from scientists and intellectuals; they struggled to adapt to the dramatic social changes wrought by immigration and urbanization; and they were often internally divided by doctrinal controversies among modernists, liberals, and fundamentalists. Rosen draws on previously unexplored archival material from the records of the American Eugenics Society, religious and scientific books and periodicals of the day, and the personal papers of religious leaders such as Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rev. John M. Cooper, Rev. John A. Ryan, and biologists Charles Davenport and Ellsworth Huntington, to produce an intellectual history of these figures that is both lively and illuminating. The story of how religious leaders confronted one of the era's newest "sciences," eugenics, sheds important new light on a time much like our own, when religion and science are engaged in critical and sometimes bitter dialogue.

Author : Marc Saperstein
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789624823

Get Book

Jewish Preaching in Times of War, 1800 - 2001 by Marc Saperstein Pdf

Wartime sermons offer a window on to how Jews perceive themselves in relation to the majority society and how Jewish and national values are reconciled when the fate of a nation is at stake. They also reveal a great deal about how rabbis guide their communities through the challenges of their times. The sermons reproduced here were delivered by rabbis from across the Jewish spectrum, and each is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction and detailed notes.

Author : Gordon L. Heath
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532601156

Get Book

American Churches and the First World War by Gordon L. Heath Pdf

The centenary of America's declaration of war in 1917 is a fitting time to examine afresh the reaction of the American churches to the conflict. What was the impact of the war on the churches as well as the churches' hoped-for influence on the nation's war effort? Commenting on themes such as nationalism, nativism, nation-building, dissent, just war, and pacifism, this book provides a window into those perilous times from the viewpoint of Mainline and Evangelical Protestants, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Pentecostals, Mennonites, Quakers, Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Also included are chapters on developments among American military chaplains in the First World War and the reaction of the American churches to the Armenian Genocide.

Author : Howard N. Kenyon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498285223

Get Book

Ethics in the Age of the Spirit by Howard N. Kenyon Pdf

What causes us as a people of faith to think and act the way we think and act? Are we motivated by whatever is most practical, by a particular understanding of Scripture, by the influence of the culture around us, or by something more profound? On the premise that Pentecostalism does have much to contribute to the study of ethics, this book explores how one group, the American Assemblies of God, has wrestled with issues of racism, women in ministry, and Christian involvement in war. In the process, readers are invited to examine the connection--or disconnect--between what we believe and how we live out our faith.

Author : Christopher Capozzola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199714865

Get Book

Uncle Sam Wants You by Christopher Capozzola Pdf

Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government. Christopher Capozzola shows how, when the war began, Americans at first mobilized society by stressing duty, obligation, and responsibility over rights and freedoms. But the heated temper of war quickly unleashed coercion on an unprecedented scale, making wartime America the scene of some of the nation's most serious political violence, including notorious episodes of outright mob violence. To solve this problem, Americans turned over increasing amounts of power to the federal government. In the end, whether they were some of the four million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of millions of home-front volunteers, Americans of the World War I era created a new American state, and new ways of being American citizens.