| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
McMaster general studies series ; vol. 5 |
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Canadian Baptist Historical Society series ; vol. 2 |
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General series (McMaster Divinity College. Press) ; v. 5.
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General series (McMaster Divinity College. Press). Canadian Baptist Historical Society series ; v. 2.
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| Contents |
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Baptists, Peace, and War: The Seventeenth-Century British Foundations -- 2. Andrew Fuller and the War against Napoleon -- 3. A House Uniting: Americans, Baptists, and the War of 1812 -- 4. The Nile Expedition, New Imperialism, and Canadian Baptists, 1884-1885 -- 5. The Call to Arms: The Reverend Thomas Todhunter Shields, World War One, and the Shaping of a Militant Fundamentalist -- 6. Reluctant Warriors: Australian Baptists in World War Two -- 7. Soviet Baptists and the Cold War -- 8. Baptists and the War in Vietnam: Responses to "America's Longest War" -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
While Baptists through the years have been certain that ""war is hell"", they have not always been able to agree on how to respond to it. This book traces much of this troubled relationship from the days of Baptist origins with close ties to pacifist Anabaptists to the responses of Baptists in America to the Vietnam War. Essays also include discussions of the English Baptist Andrew Fuller's response to the threat of Napoleon, how Baptists in America dealt with the War of 1812, the support of Canadian Baptists for Britain's war in Sudan and Abyssinia in the 1880s, the decisive effect of the Fir |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 25, 2017) |
| Subject |
Baptists -- History
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Baptists -- Doctrines
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War -- Religious aspects.
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Baptists -- Canada -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Baptist.
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Baptists
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Baptists -- Doctrines
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War -- Religious aspects
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heath, Gordon L., editor
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| ISBN |
071884422X |
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9780718844226 |
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