{"id":3215,"date":"2014-02-03T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:38:16","slug":"sacred-scripture-sacred-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3215","title":{"rendered":"SACRED SCRIPTURE, SACRED WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" style=\"margin-top: 33px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ9ekfjC094ER5KOmWuY3QZpvC3OSqnQHPa4ZlWJHcqHHqxPyxP\" width=\"523\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wars are not simply military affairs.\u00a0 For the Christian, they are theological to the core.\u00a0\u00a0 Mark Noll has made that clear with the various ways ministers interpreted the Civil War (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0807830127\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0807830127&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=musionscieand-20\"><em>The Civil War as a Theological Crisis<\/em><\/a>, University of North Carolina Press).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last year, James Byrd of Vanderbilt released his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/019984349X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=019984349X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=musionscieand-20\"><em>Sacred Scripture, Sacred War:<\/em>\u00a0<em>the Bible and the American Revolution<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Oxford University Press).\u00a0 It received a book of the year award from\u00a0<em>Christianity Today<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My interview with Professor Byrd of Vanderbilt appeared this past Saturday on JesusCreed:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2014\/02\/01\/sacred-scripture-and-sacred-war-an-interview-with-james-byrd\/\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2014\/02\/01\/sacred-scripture-and-sacred-war-an-interview-with-james-byrd\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wars are not simply military affairs.\u00a0 For the Christian, they are theological to the core.\u00a0\u00a0 Mark Noll has made that clear with the various ways ministers interpreted the Civil War (see\u00a0The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, University of North Carolina Press). Last year, James Byrd of Vanderbilt released his\u00a0Sacred Scripture, Sacred War:\u00a0the Bible and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3,12,71,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-bible","category-book-review","category-interview","category-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}