A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood
The Bible and the American Civil War
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 April 2021
- ISBN 9780190902797
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 165x236x38 mm
- Weight 662 g
- Language English 92
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Short description:
In this book, James Byrd offers a thorough analysis of how Americans, North and South, enlisted scripture to fight the Civil War. As Byrd reveals in this insightful narrative, no book was more important to the conflict than the Bible. From Massachusetts to Mississippi and beyond, the Bible was the nation's most read and respected book, and each side enlisted it in arguments over slavery, secession, patriotism, authority, white supremacy, and violence. The A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood draws on an astonishing array of sources to demonstrate the many ways that Americans enlisted the Bible in the nation's bloodiest, and arguably most biblically-saturated conflict.
MoreLong description:
In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides "read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." He wasn't speaking metaphorically: the Bible was frequently wielded as a weapon in support of both North and South.
As James P. Byrd reveals in this insightful narrative, no book was more important to the Civil War than the Bible. From Massachusetts to Mississippi and beyond, the Bible was the nation's most read and respected book. It presented a drama of salvation and damnation, of providence and judgment, of sacred history and sacrifice. When Americans argued over the issues that divided them -- slavery, secession, patriotism, authority, white supremacy, and violence -- the Bible was the book they most often invoked. Soldiers fought the Civil War with Bibles in hand, and both sides called the war just and sacred. In scripture, both Union and Confederate soldiers found inspiration for dying-and for killing-on a scale never before seen in the nation's history. With approximately 750,000 fatalities, the Civil War was the deadliest of the nation's wars, leading many to turn to the Bible not just to fight but to deal with its inevitable trauma.
A fascinating overview of religious and military conflict, A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood draws on an astonishing array of sources to demonstrate the many ways that Americans enlisted the Bible in the nation's bloodiest, and arguably most biblically-saturated conflict.
A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood...makes an important contribution to our understanding of how Americans used the Bible, and the roles that religious ideology played during the nation's bloodies conflict.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. His Terrible Swift Sword
2. The Stone Which the Builders Rejected
3. The Red Sea of War
4. This Second War I Consider Equally as Holy as the First
5. A Covenant of Death
6. Trust in Providence and Keep Your Powder Dry
7. This Warfare is a Holy Warfare
8. A Holy Baptism of Fir and Blood
9. Welcome to the Ransomed
10. Without Shedding of Blood Is No Remission
11. The Sword of the Lord
12. We Cannot Escape History
13. Of One Blood all Nations
14. These Dead Have Not Died in Vain
15. Cursed Be He That Keepeth Back His Sword from Blood
16. Woe To That Man By Whom The Offense Cometh
17. Baptized in the Blood of their President
Epilogue
