Publication Date
Spring 4-29-2021
Subject Area
Section 4: Featured Articles
Abstract
Ever since humanity has gone to war with itself, both sides of the conflict often times have used respective religious texts to argue that their god or gods were on their side and against their opponents. Saint Augustine promulgated this idea further in his theory of Just War. Colonists during the American Revolution were not exempt from this tendency but participated fully in it. Because of their Calvinistic leanings, influenced by Edwards and the First Great Awakening, North American colonists frequently referenced their own Divine text, the Bible, and went to Sacred Scripture to prove to their side that America was a fulfillment of a New Israel, Great Britain as a type of Antichrist, and ultimately on the outcome of events, which was always prescribed to as being from the Providence of God.
