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.
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