The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation
"They died to save their country and they only saved the world."\ This line, the final one in G. K. Chesterton’s poem, "The English Graves," serves for Richard Gamble as an interpretive key to a peculiarly important moment in American history: the time of the First World War, when progressive Christian leaders in America transformed themselves from principled pacifists to crusading interventionists. The consequence of this momentous shift, says Gamble was the triumph of the idea that America...
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In The War for Righteousness, Gamble reconstructs the inner world of the gospel clergy. Vividly narrating how the progressive clergy played a surprising role in molding the public consensuus in favor of total war, Gamble engages the broader question of religion's role in shaping the modern American mind an dthe development, at the deepest levels, of the logic of messianic interventionism both at home and abroad. Author Bio:Richard M. Gamble is Assistant Professor of History at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he has tauht in the history and honors programs since 1994. He is also a Visiting Scholar at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University, and regularly returns to the Western Front to lead travel-study programs on the Battle of Verdun. His essays and reviews have appeared in Humanitas, the Journal of Southern History, Chronicles, the Independent Review, and Ideas on Liberty.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11A Vast Spiritual Migration: Tracing the Worldview of the Progressive Clergy252Applied Christianity: Implementing the Progressive Worldview493Applied Christianity Abroad: Foreign Missions, Internationalism, and the Expanding Circle of Progressive Reform to 1914694Fit to Serve All Mankind: The Progressive Clergy and the European War, 1914-1917895With Battle Banners Furled: The Varieties of Progressive Pacifism, 1914-19171116A Righteous People in a Righteous Cause: The Progressive Clergy and American Intervention, 1917-19181497Soldiers of the Cross: The Progressive Clergy's Redemptive War, 1917-19181818A New World Order: The Progressive Clergy and the Peace, 1918-19202099Righteousness Postponed: The Progressive Clergy's Enduring Worldview233Epilogue253Notes257Index297
