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On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine shared his incendiary pamphlet "GOOD SENSE", Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon. "God Almighty, with all the current capabilities of heaven, are on our area," Sherwood said, voicing a sacred justification for battle that People in america would invoke consistently throughout the have difficulty for self-reliance. In Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, James Byrd supplies the first comprehensive analysis of how American revolutionaries defended their patriotic convictions through scripture. Byrd demonstrates the Bible was a key wording of the North american Revolution. Indeed, many colonists saw the Bible as generally a e book about battle. They viewed God as not merely sanctioning violence but actively participating in combat, playing a decisive role on the battlefield. When battle came, preachers and patriots likewise considered scripture not limited to solace but also for exhortations to deal with. Such scripture helped amateur troops beat their natural aversion to eradicating, conferred on those who passed on for the Revolution the halo of martyrdom, and provided Americans a feeling of the divine providence of their cause. Many histories of the Revolution have noted the connection between religious beliefs and battle, but Sacred Scripture, Sacred War is the first ever to provide a thorough analysis of specific biblical text messages and how these were used, especially in making the patriotic case for battle. Combing through more than 500 wartime options, which include more than 17,000 biblical citations, Byrd shows precisely how the Bible molded American war, and how war in turn shaped People in america' view of the Bible. Brilliantly explored and cogently argued, Sacred Scripture, Sacred War sheds new light on the North american Revolution.
