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

by James P. Byrd

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190697563
• ISBN13: 9780190697563
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"