Christian History Home > 1996 > Issue 50
Letters to the Editor
Reactions to Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages
Christianity and the American Revolution: Did You Know?
Little-known or remarkable facts about Christianity and the American Revolution
Cassandra Niemczyk is a freelance writer from Wheaton, Illinois, and a regular contributor to CHRISTIAN HISTORY.
From the Editor: Discovering the Unexpected - Again
Mark Galli
Preaching the Insurrection
Angry colonists were rallied to declare independence and take up arms because of what they heard from the pulpit.
Harry Stout is Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity at Yale University. He is author of "The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England" (Oxford).
Fighting Words
Peter Muhlenberg gave perhaps the most dramatic sermon of the Revolutionary era.
Christianity and the American Revolution: A Gallery of Christians in the Cause
Five devout champions of liberty and revolution.
Mark Couvillon is historical interpreter and researcher at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He is co-author of "Patrick Henry Essays" (1994).
Holy Passion for Liberty
In their own words, patriots describe their sense that God had ordained their cause.
Christianity and the American Revolution: Christian History Timeline
Robert Calhoon is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is author of Dominion and Liberty: Ideology in the Anglo-American World (1994).
Disciples of Reason
What did the founding fathers really believe?
Edwin Gaustad is professor emeritus, history and religious studies, University of California, Riverside. He is author of Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson (Eerdmans, 1996).
Battling Irreligion in the Ranks
Chaplains had one of the toughest jobs in the Continental Army.
Charles Royster
Jesus vs. the Watchmaker
Which ideas energized the American Revolution: those of evangelical Christianity or enlightened deism?
Derek H. Davis is director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Curious Mix in the Continental Congress
How Christians and deists worked together in the war effort.
Derek H. Davis is director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
The Price of Dissent
Christians who argued against independence suffered for it.
Harry S. Stout
Selfish, Ungrateful Rebels
Many devout Christians were deeply troubled by the drive for independence.
A Revolution in Religion, Too
The Revolutionary War changed American Christianity, and it still sparks debate today.
A conversation with Mark Noll
Christianity and the American Revolution: Recommended Resources
David W. Kling is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Miami and author of "A Field of Divine Wonders: The New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern Connecticut, 1792–1822" (Penn State, 1993).
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