Respect authority because god put them in authority for a reason. So what you call patriotism is really just ambition. Its selfishness in disguise. And all patriotic revolts do is create more violence. Now what about the patriotic argument . What are the patriots going to do with texts like fear god and honor the king . What are the patriots going to do with texts that say that the Civil Authority are the revengers of god on wrongdoers, obey them just as if youre obeying god . What can you do with that . Is there anywhere you can go with that . Well, of course. Lets see. Jonathan mayhew, long before the revolution, concerning unlimited submission. That title is really helpful. And people like john adams cousins use this text and many, many others. And lets thing about their argument. They say, look again at the historical context. Peter and paul, what they were really doing was making general statements about respecting authority. Submission didnt mean unlimited submission to any king
Text of the American Revolution when war came to the colonies, preachers and patriots alike turned to the bible not only for solace, but for exhortations to fight. Such scripture helped amateur soldiers overcome their natural aversion to killing, conferred on those who died for the revolution, the halo of martyrdom, and he gave americans the sense of Divine Providence of their calls. In this session he will examine specific biblical texts in how they were used for making the patriotic calls for war. Case for war. James byrd is chair of the graduate department of religion and associate professor of american religious history at vanderbilt university. His latest book is sacred scripture, sacred war, the bible and the American Revolution. Hes currently working on a book on the bible and the American Civil War. So please join me in welcoming dr. Bird. Well, thank you. Im so pleased to be here and to be joining in this important conversation at the museum of the bible and im very honored to
Fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning. The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. These are the headwaters of t
Importance of the great awak awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning. The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that f
And its influence on the American Revolution. Well start with jeffrey mod3;ajaaz the James Madison memorial fellowship foundation. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smart looking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. And you recall from our last session together i laid out what i think are some head waters of early american constitutionalism. We looked at classical republicanism, primarily grecoroman. We looked at enlightenment imperialism. Then i mentioned protestant christianity. And we deferred that to today. Thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its head waters. Great rivers, mainstreams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point Missouri River, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by lewis and clark. And in a graphic way i just tried simply to illustrate those three headwaters. Classical republicanism to the left there. Enlightenment liberalism. And protestant chr