City on a Hill

Reading the Bible Politically, Part 1.

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In this episode, we discuss how the Bible was used in churches, by ministers, to inflame political fervor for a revolution!

NOTES:

Here are the two books that motivated this episode.

  • Sacred Scripture, Sacred War by James P. Byrd
  • A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood by James P. Byrd

    • RECAP/TAKEAWAYS:

    • Both great wars followed after Great Awakenings. The genuine religious experiences are something to be thankful for, to be sure. Both awakenings centered on individual experience and resulted in privatizing Bible interpretation. Both were, to a degree, anti-institutional. The First Great Awakening bypassed the traditional churches and the second majored on camp meetings.
    • Ministers during the Revolutionary era equated America with Israel and saw the conflict with Britain in Apocalyptic terms.
    • What can you do?
      • Read your Bible.
      • Beware of your own context.
      • What did this mean to the first readers? It can’t mean something to you that it didn’t mean to them.
      • Can you draw a straight line from the meaning of the text to their application?

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