Sacred Scripture, Sacred War

Sacred Scripture, Sacred War
Author: James P. Byrd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190697563

The American colonists who took up arms against the British fought in defense of the ''sacred cause of liberty.'' But it was not merely their cause but warfare itself that they believed was sacred. In Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, James P. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the American Revolution.

Justifying Revolution

Justifying Revolution
Author: Gary L. Steward
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0197565352

"This work explores the patriot clergymen's arguments for the legitimacy of political resistance to the British in the early stages of the American Revolution. It reconstructs the historical and theological background of the colonial clergymen, showing the continued impact that Stuart absolutism and Reformed resistance theory had on their political theology. As a corrective to previous scholarship, this work argues that the American clergymen's rationale for political resistance in the eighteenth century developed in general continuity with a broad strand of Protestant thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The arguments of Jonathan Mayhew and John Witherspoon are highlighted, along with a wide range of Whig clergyman on both sides of the Atlantic. The agreement that many British clergymen had with their colonial counterparts challenges the view that the American Revolution emerged from distinctly American modes of thought"--

A Republic of Righteousness

A Republic of Righteousness
Author: Jonathan D. Sassi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2001-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 019512989X

Dr Sassi examines the debate over the proper connection in society between religion and public life, that took place in the fifty years following the American Revolution.