Sacred Scripture, Sacred War
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Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution
By James P. ByrdOn Foxe's influence in America, see James West Davidson, The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth-Century New England (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977), 241; Francis J. Bremer, “Foxe in the Wilderness: The Book of Martyrs ...
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Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution
By James P. ByrdAfter the war, millennial aspirations for America subsided as controversies and conflicts plagued the new nation. ... See also Guyatt, Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607– 1876 (New York: Cambridge University Press, ...
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Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution
By James P. ByrdWinner 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 ...
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Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution
By James P. ByrdWinner 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 ...
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Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution
' But it was not merely their cause but warfare itself that they believed was sacred. In this book, James P. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the American Revolution.