The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation » (1st Edition)

In The War for Righteousness, Gamble reconstructs the inner world of the gospel clergy. Vividly narrating how the progressive clergy played a surprising role in molding the public consensuus in favor of total war, Gamble engages the broader question of religion's role in shaping the modern American mind an dthe development, at the deepest levels, of the logic of messianic interventionism both at home and abroad.

Author Bio:Richard M. Gamble is Assistant Professor of History at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he has tauht in the history and honors programs since 1994. He is also a Visiting Scholar at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University, and regularly returns to the Western Front to lead travel-study programs on the Battle of Verdun. His essays and reviews have appeared in Humanitas, the Journal of Southern History, Chronicles, the Independent Review, and Ideas on Liberty.