The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
ISBN-13:
9780299300340
ISBN-10:
029930034X
Edition:
1
Author:
Matthew McCullough
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
Format:
Paperback
200 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9780299300340
ISBN-10:
029930034X
Edition:
1
Author:
Matthew McCullough
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
Format:
Paperback
200 pages
Category:
United States History
,
Americas History
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The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War (Studies in American Thought and Culture) (ISBN-13: 9780299300340 and ISBN-10: 029930034X), written by authors
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The Cross of War documents the rise of “messianic interventionism”―the belief that America can and should intervene altruistically on behalf of other nations. This stance was first embraced in the Spanish-American War of 1898, a war that marked the dramatic emergence of the United States as an active world power and set the stage for the foreign policy of the next one hundred years. Responding to the circumstances of this war, an array of Christian leaders carefully articulated and defended the notion that America was responsible under God to extend freedom around the world―by force, if necessary. Drawing from a wide range of sermons and religious periodicals across regional and denominational lines, Matthew McCullough describes the ways that many American Christians came to celebrate military intervention as a messianic sacrifice, to trace the hand of God in a victory more painless and complete than anyone had imagined, and to justify the shift in American foreign policy as a divine calling.
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