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Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution

Autor James P. Byrd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2017

Considerăm că Sacred Scripture, Sacred War reprezintă o piesă fundamentală pentru înțelegerea modului în care textul biblic a fost utilizat nu doar ca sursă de consolare, ci ca instrument de legitimare a violenței în timpul Revoluției Americane. James P. Byrd investighează modul în care predicatorii și patrioții au apelat la Scriptură pentru a ajuta soldații amatori să depășească aversiunea naturală față de ucidere, transformându-i pe cei căzuți în martiri ai cauzei libertății. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea metodologică: autorul a analizat peste 500 de surse de epocă și 17.000 de citări biblice pentru a arăta cum războiul a modelat interpretarea Bibliei în colonii. Această abordare oferă o perspectivă inedită asupra ideii de providență divină care a alimentat spiritul revoluționar. Cartea acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum By the Hand of Providence, dar cu o abordare mult mai analitică și bazată pe date cantitative, spre deosebire de stilul narativ al lui Rod Gragg. În contextul operei sale, Byrd continuă explorarea intersecției dintre credință și viața publică începută în The Challenges of Roger Williams, însă aici mută accentul de la libertatea religioasă la teologia conflictului armat. Dacă în Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians prezenta bazele puritanismului american, în acest volum vedem cum acea moștenire teologică este activată pe câmpul de luptă. Găsim în această lucrare o demonstrație clară a modului în care Biblia a devenit textul central al Revoluției, oferind justificări sacre pentru o luptă politică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190697563
ISBN-10: 0190697563
Pagini: 258
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria ideilor și de rolul religiei în politică. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care textul sacru a fost folosit pentru a motiva o națiune aflată în război. Este o lectură esențială pentru a vedea cum interpretările biblice au influențat direct moralul trupelor și viziunea americană despre destinul național, fiind o lucrare premiată pentru rigoarea istorică.


Despre autor

James P. Byrd este decan asistent al Departamentului de Studii Graduate în Religie și profesor asistent de istorie religioasă americană la Universitatea Vanderbilt din Nashville, Tennessee. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre Scriptură și evenimentele majore ale istoriei americane. Este autorul unor lucrări de referință precum The Challenges of Roger Williams, unde explorează libertatea religioasă, și Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians, o introducere în viața marelui teolog puritan. Prin cercetările sale, Byrd analizează modul în care tradițiile religioase au modelat identitatea politică a Statelor Unite.


Descriere

Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography categoryOn 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.

Recenzii

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.
This is a well-written and fascinating book that sheds new light on the role of religion in the American Revolution. No one has analyzed the revolutionary sermon in this kind of detail before.
Marvelously researched and historically compelling an achievement of the first order.
Short but potent It will be foundational for all future studies of the Bible and the American Revolution, and it will be of great interest and relevance for broader studies of religion in late colonial America.
Excellent and trailblazing It is impossible to do justice to the richness of the book's findings and insights in a short review fascinating, important, and insightful.
With its remarkable research and deft insights, Sacred Scripture, Sacred War represents a major breakthrough in the study of religion and the American Founding. Never before have we had such a systematic investigation of how the Patriots actually used the Bible. Anyone interested in the Revolution will have to contend with Byrd's book.
Historians believe they know why Founders such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson became revolutionaries, but the reasons why most common people supported the American Revolution, and were willing to fight and die for American independence, has remained something of an enigma. By studying how the Bible and the clergy inspired patriotism, historian James Byrd has provided answers that unravel some of the mystery. Byrd has written a good and important book that enriches our understanding of the American Revolution.
It is no secret that the Bible is the quintessential text in American political and cultural history. Its cadences soar in presidential addresses and in America's greatest novels. Until recently, the central role the Bible has played in American wars has been less clear. Now, thanks to James Byrd, scholars have a thoroughly narrated index of the American Revolution that shows just how pervasive the Bible was to patriots pursuing their war for independence. Richly detailed and beautifully written, this book makes a major contribution to the literature on America's religious destiny, which was forged in the travail of revolution.
By far the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of how revolutionary Americans defended their patriotic convictions through scripture." - Christianity Today
Byrd mines his dataset of wartime sermons during the long eighteenth-century to great effect...adds immeasurably to our understanding of the Bible's function during wartime and the ways in which American patriots understood the Revolution." - Religion in American History
A convincing, first systematic analysis of how early American preachers and authors used the Bible to interpret Americans' engagement in war... Recommended.
Sacred Scripture, Sacred War is a milestone in understanding Christianity in the American Revolution."-Fides et Historia

Notă biografică

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.