Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith Religion in American War and Diplomacy

Name: Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith Religion in American War and Diplomacy
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ISBN: 9781400078585

ISBN-10: 140007858X

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Authors: Andrew Preston

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A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women—from presidents to preachers—who have plotted the country’s course in the world. Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans’ new home would be “a city upon a hill,” Americans’ role in the world has been shaped by their belief that God has something special in mind for them. But this is a story that historians have mostly ignored. Now, in the first authoritative work on the subject, Andrew Preston explores the major strains of religious fervor—liberal and conservative, pacifist and militant, internationalist and isolationist—that…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 832
Size: 5.30" wide x 7.90" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Andrew Preston is University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University.



Preface


Introduction



In the Beginning



Defenders of the Faith



God Is an Excellent Man of War



Wars of Permanent Reformation



The American Revelation



The Harmony of the World Confounded



Liberation Theology



Imperial Destinies



Absolutist Apostasies



The Benevolent Empire, at Home and Abroad



Manifest Destiny and Its Discontents



America's Mission



Abraham Lincoln and the First War of Humanitarian Intervention



Missionaries and the Imperialism of Human Rights



An Also Chosen People



Cuba, the Philippines, and the First Crusade



Woodrow Wilson and the Second Crusade



The Idealistic Synthesis



Onward Christian Soldiers



The Wilsonian Creed



Franklin Roosevelt and the Third Crusade



Princes of Peace and Prophets of Realism



The Simple Faith of Franklin Roosevelt



The Holocaust and the Moral Meaning of the War



Spiritual Diplomacy



The Church Unmilitant



John Foster Dulles and the Quest for a Just and Durable Peace



The Cold War and the Fourth Crusade



The Faith of Harry Truman and the Theology of George Kennan



High Priests of the Cold War: Eisenhower and the Second Coming of Dulles



The Great Schism and the Myth of Consensus



Reformation and Counterreformation



The Revolutionary Church in a Revolutionary Age



The Valley of the Shadow of Death



Get Thee Behind Me, Satan



A Judeo-Christian Foreign Policy



Ronald the Lionheart


Epilogue: The Last Crusade?


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index