Andrew Preston for Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
From George Washington to George W. Bush, from the Puritans to the
present, from the colonial wars to the Cold War, religion has been one
of America’s most powerful sources of ideas about the wider world. When,
just days after 9/11, George W. Bush described America as “a prayerful
nation, a nation that prays to an almighty God for protection and for
peace,” or when Barack Obama spoke of balancing the “just war and the
imperatives of a just peace” in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech,
they were echoing four hundred years of religious rhetoric. Preston
traces this echo back to its source.Read an excerpt from the book.
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