Sword of the spirit, shield of faith : religion in American war and diplomacy /
Andrew Preston.
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books
| Utgitt | New York : : Alfred A. Knopf, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xi, 815 p. )
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - pt. 1: In the beginning. Defenders of the faith ; God is an excellent man of war ; Wars of permanent reformation -- pt. 2: The American revelation. The harmony of the world confounded ; Liberation theology -- pt. 3: Imperial destinies. Absolutist apostasies ; The benevolent empire, at home and abroad ; Manifest Destiny and its discontents -- pt. 4: 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 -- pt. 5: Woodrow Wilson and the Second Crusade. The idealistic synthesis ; Onward Christian soldiers ; The Wilsonian creed -- pt. 6: 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 -- pt. 7: 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 -- pt. 8: 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?. - "A richly detailed 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 framed American thinking on international issues from the earliest colonial wars to the twenty-first century, and he arrives at some startling conclusions"--Publisher description.
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| ISBN | 0-307-95760-8
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