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  • Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
  • Written by author Andrew Preston
  • Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 11/13/2012
  • Winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Finalist for the Cundhill Prize in History A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of th
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Preface ix

Introduction 3

Part I In the Beginning 15

Chapter 1 Defenders of the Faith 19

Chapter 2 God Is an Excellent Man of War 31

Chapter 3 Wars of Permanent Reformation 46

Part II The American Revelation 71

Chapter 4 The Harmony of the World Confounded 77

Chapter 5 Liberation Theology 88

Part III Imperial Destinies 103

Chapter 6 Absolutist Apostasies 109

Chapter 7 The Benevolent Empire, at Home and Abroad 122

Chapter 8 Manifest Destiny and Its Discontents 135

Part IV America's Mission 155

Chapter 9 Abraham Lincoln and the First War of Humanitarian Intervention 161

Chapter 10 Missionaries and the Imperialism of Human Rights 175

Chapter 11 An Also Chosen People 198

Chapter 12 Cuba, the Philippines, and the First Crusade 207

Part V Woodrow Wilson and the Second Crusade 233

Chapter 13 The Idealistic Synthesis 239

Chapter 14 Onward Christian Soldiers 253

Chapter 15 The Wilsonian Creed 275

Part VI Franklin Roosevelt and the Third Crusade 291

Chapter 16 Princes of Peace and Prophets of Realism 297

Chapter 17 The Simple Faith of Franklin Roosevelt 315

Chapter 18 The Holocaust and the Moral Meaning of the War 327

Chapter 19 Spiritual Diplomacy 342

Chapter 20 The Church Unmilitant 365

Chapter 21 John Foster Dulles and the Quest for a Just and Durable Peace 384

Part VII The Cold War and the Fourth Crusade 411

Chapter 22 The Faith of Harry Truman and the Theology of George Kennan 417

Chapter 23 High Priests of the Cold War: Eisenhower and the Second Coming of Dulles 440

Chapter 24 The Great Schism and the Myth of Consensus 465

Part VIII Reformation and Counterreformation 497

Chapter 25 The Revolutionary Church in a Revolutionary Age 501

Chapter 26 The Valley of the Shadow of Death 520

Chapter 27 Get Thee Behind Me, Satan 539

Chapter 28 A Judeo-Christian Foreign Policy 559

Chapter 29 Ronald the Lionheart 574

Epilogue: The Last Crusade? 601

Abbreviations 615

Notes 617

Bibliography 699

Acknowledgments 779

Index 783


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