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Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Bible And The American Revolution 20180223

Reading. Right . Its not exactly what im thinking when i pick up the bible. But hes not alone. Hes not alone among his contemporaries in making this claim. I have some language here from john dickinson, a founder we should all be more familiar with, somewhat forgotten in our own time, but he was acclaimed in his own time as the penman of the revolution. On more than one occasion he makes almost precisely this same statement. Here i have him saying the bible is the most republican book that ever was written. Again, even these two are not alone among their contemporaries in making this statement. Now, the bible is many things to the christian. Its gods word, the whole counsel of god, its a guiding lamp, a divine handbook for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction in righteousness. But is it republican . In what sense the bible republican . What are they talking about here . As ive already mentioned there were americans in the founding era who believed the hebrew republic which encomp ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Bible And The American Revolution 20180223

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
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Transcripts For CSPAN3 The Bible And The American Revolution 20180223

Book in the world, the most republican book in the world. Now, i have picked up my bible thousands of times over the course of my life, but ive got to be honest with you, ive never once picked it up and said now for some good republican reading. Right . Its not exactly what im thinking when i pick up the bible. But hes not alone. Hes not alone among his contemporaries in making this claim. I have some language here from john dickinson, a founder we should all be more familiar with, somewhat forgotten in our own time, but he was acclaimed in his own time as the penman of the revolution. On more than one occasion he makes almost precisely this same statement. Here i have him saying the bible is the most republican book that ever was written. Again, even these two are not alone among their contemporaries in making this statement. Now, the bible is many things to the christian. Its gods word, the whole counsel of god, its a guiding lamp, a divine handbook for doctrine, reproof, correction, ....

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