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. . . there was also an on stick until a sense that a lot of christians, because of their faith, because of their love for neighbor resisted going to war. one of most prominent civil war historians, drew gillman foust, argued that killing or trying to get christians to kill for their country was harder than trying to get them to die for their country. the argument was that christians have all along typically had this sense of self sacrifice. but getting someone to actually take up arms and kill, that was the harder courage. that was the harder obstacle to overcome for a lot of people in the civil war era. and that s the same case in the revolutionary war era. the same kind of situation. and this was the fact that there were a lot of loyalists who knew how to quote scripture really well, including the methodists. they can read scripture pretty well. they were like john wesley, for the most part, loyalists. they were english. so i want to talk about a couple fram ....
convictions and to justify the revolutionary war. this top was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible here in washington d.c.. it s 45 minutes. our third session today is the bible of the american revolution with james bird. and this presentation, based on his latest book, james bird shows that the bible was a key text of the american revolution, and when war came to the colonies, preachers and patriots alike turned to the bible, not only for solace but for expectations to fight. such scripture helped amateur soldiers overcome their natural aversion to killing, can furred on those who died for the revolution, the halo of martyrdom. and he gave americans a sense of the divine providence of their calls. in this session, doctor bird will examine specific biblical texts and how they were used, especially in making the patriotic calls for war. case reward. transporters chair of the graduate department of religion an associate professor of american religious ....
north carolina at chapel hill and today s lecture is on the history of american fundamentalism and pentecostalism. i will try to answer three big questions today. number one, what is protestant fundamentalism? what does the term mean? second, how did fundamentalists relate to mainstream culture? and third, why has fundamentalism been so much more influential in the united states then in any other society in the western world? curious, is fundamentalism, fundamentalists are these terms that you here today? do you that you hear today? do you know people that use this label? i can see some knotting. any some nodding. any examples? term that you here more often in the context of islam. what about here, among american christian groups? i am from up north. and many of the christians down here we call fundamentalist christians. often as a per jordan of. ive.ften as a perjorat prof. worthen: that lines up with my own experience. i have met some proud, independent baptist ....
prof. worthen: let us begin. my name is molly worthen. we are at the university of north carolina at chapel hill and today s lecture is on the history of american fundamentalism and pentecostalism. i will try to answer three big questions today. number one, what is protestant fundamentalism? what does the term mean? second, how did fundamentalists relate to mainstream culture? and third, why has fundamentalism been so much more influential in the united states than in any other society in the western world? i am curious, is fundamentalism, fundamentalists are these terms that you hear today? do you know people who call themselves fundamentalists or use this label? i can see some nodding. any examples? is that how they describe groups that do terrorist attack? it is a term that you hear more often in the context of islam. what about here, among american christian groups? i am from up north. and many of the christians down here we call fundamentalist christians. oft ....
what is protestant fundamentalism? what does the term mean? second, how did fundamentalists relate to mainstream culture? third, why has fundamentalism been so much more influential in the united states than in any other society in the western world. world? is fundamentalism, fundamentalist am a term that you here today? terms that you here today? do you know people that call themselves fundamentalists or use this label? i see some nodding, any examples? people with islam are trying to describe it is a term you here more .ften as a concept of islam what about here among american, christian groups, do you hear the label? i m from the north and many people are called called fundamentalist christians. it is not often used by fundamentalists themselves. you have heard it more as a pejorative term? that lines up with my own experience. there are exceptions. i certainly met some proud independent baptists who claim that term fundamentalist. generally, it seems to ....