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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.
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James P. Byrd is Assistant Professor of American Religious History and Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion. He is the author of Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians and The Challenges of Roger Williams.
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"Richly researched and drawing from copious amounts of primary material, Byrd's work opens up a previously undiscovered world to those seeking to understand the complicated relationship between America, war, and the Bible. This should be required reading for all those interested in understanding the congregational and hermeneutic roots of America's long love affair with both war and Scripture." -- Myles Merntz, The Englewood Review of Books magazine
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 019984349X
- ISBN 13 9780199843497
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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