Service. Next on american History Tv, Vanderbilt University Professor James Byrd discusses how the founding fathers used the bible to justify the revolutionary war. This talk was part of a owesium hosted in washington, d. C. Our third Session Today is the bible and the american revolution with James Byrd. In this presentation based on his latest book, he shows that the bible was a key text of the american revolution when war came to the colonies, preachers and patriots turned to the bible for solace and exhortations to fight. Such scripture helped soldiers. Conferred on those who died for the revolution and he gave americans a sense of the divine providence of their calls. In this session, dr. Byrd will examine specific biblical text and how they were used especially in making the patriotic calls for war. James byrd is chair of the Graduate Department of Religion And Associate professor of american religion at vanderbilt university. The latest book is sacred scripture, sacred war. Join
republicanism. roman, greco-roman, but primarily roman. enlightened liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things and i mentioned protestant christianity of the third of the headwaters i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism, and we defer that to today. that s 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 the 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 christianity. that s where we are, looking at protestant christianity. this is a representation of one of those camp meetings during the first great awak
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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 a sense of the divine providence of their calls. in this session dr. byrd will examine specific biblical texts aened how they were umaking the patriotic case for war. james byrd is associate professor of american religious history at vanderbilt university. his latest book is sacred scripture, sacred war. he s currently working on a book on the bible and the american civil war. please join me in welcoming dr. byrd. [ applause ] well, thank you, i m so pleased to be here and to be joining in this important conversation at the museum of the bible. i m very honored to be sharing the podium with the two scholars i ve admired for years and i especially thank the team here at the museum of the bible rm, all of you for putting this together. i m just very honored to be part
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. he s currently working on a book on the bible and the american civil war. so please join me in welcoming dr. bird. . well, thank you. i m so pleased to be here and to be joining in this important conversation at the museum of the bible and i