Swords & plowshares : American evangelicals on war, 1937-1973 / Timothy D. Padgett
Series: Studies in historical and systematic theology seriesPublication details: Bellingham, WA : Lexham, [2018]Description: xiv, 426 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 9781683591061
- 1683591062
- Swords and plowshares
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| BT736.2 C62 War : | BT736.2 H22 1981 Militia Christi : | BT736.2 L33 War and the Gospel / | BT736.2 P13 2018 Swords & plowshares : American evangelicals on war, 1937-1973 / | BT736.2 Sw5w The early Fathers on war and military service / | BT736.4 R66w Partners in peace and education : | BT738 C63 The church and the powers : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-421) and indexes.
Introduction -- Prelude to War, 1937-1941 -- The Conflagration, 1942-1945 -- Plowshares into Swords, 1946-1949 -- Turning East -- 1950-1953 -- A Tense Peace, 1954-1958 -- Battles Near and Far, 1959-1963 -- Almost Armageddon, 1964-1968 -- The End of War, 1969-1973 -- Conclusions
Evangelicals are warmongering nationalists--right? Many assume that evangelicals have always shared the ideology and approach of the Moral Majority. But the truth is much more complex. Historically, evangelical rank and file have not held to one position about war; instead, they are strewn across the spectrum from love of peace to glorying in war. In Swords and Plowshares, Timothy Padgett complicates our common perceptions of evangelical attitudes towards war and peace. Evangelical leaders regularly wrote about the temporal and eternal implications of war from World War II to the Vietnam War. Padgett allows us to see firsthand how these evangelicals actually spoke about war and love of country. Instead of blind ideologues we meet concerned people of conviction struggling to reconcile the demands of a world in turmoil with the rule of the Prince of peace.
