TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Jeffrey
TI  - Religion and violence in early American Methodism: taking the kingdom by force 
T2  - Religion in North America
SN  - 9780253004239
AV  - BX8231 .W49 2010eb
U1  - 287.0973/09033 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Bloomington, Ind.
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Methodist Church
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Violence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Église méthodiste
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Langage et langues
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Methodist
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - United States
KW  - Church history
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein -- Introduction -- Fighting the good fight -- Contesting the good fight : warfare and the American Revolution -- The power to "kill and make alive" : the spiritual battle and the body in post-Revolutionary America -- Beating their plowshares into swords : Methodists and violence in antebellum America -- Methodist respectability and the decline of the good fight for salvation -- The Christian's warfare and social violence
N2  - Early American Methodists commonly described their religious lives as great wars with sin and claimed they wrestled with God and Satan who assaulted them in terrible ways. Carefully examining a range of sources, including sermons, letters, autobiographies, journals, and hymns, Jeffrey Williams explores this violent aspect of American religious life and thought. Williams exposes Methodism's insistence that warfare was an inevitable part of Christian life and necessary for any person who sought God's redemp
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