{"product_id":"valiant-pious-the-idea-of-the-christian-soldier-in-america-1776-1918","title":"Valiant \u0026 Pious: The Idea of the Christian Soldier in America, 1776–1918","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/8859\/5494\/files\/DavenantPress_logo-01.jpg?v=1698851619\" width=\"207\" height=\"55\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(39, 89, 53);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Miles Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(39, 89, 53);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForward by: Larry P. Arnn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(39, 89, 53);\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003ePages: 328\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf America has historically been a Christian nation, does that mean it has spent two and half centuries waging holy wars? From Washington’s Continental Army to the trenches of the First World War, Miles Smith uncovers a forgotten rivalry inside the American military: a contest between the officer corps’ classical Protestantism and the anti-institutional fervor of evangelical revival. While many Americans began to embrace a more democratic religion throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—suspicious of hierarchy, confident in progress—the Army and Navy held the line, catechized at West Point on natural law rather than camp-meeting enthusiasm. But that order could not last. Andrew Jackson’s rise gave evangelicals their first foothold in military life, and a quiet revolution followed: as old hierarchies fell, the nation itself became sacred, its wars invested with a holiness the officer corps had once refused to grant them. Rigorously researched, Valiant \u0026amp; Pious traces this contest from the Revolution to World War I—and explains why Americans still can’t agree on how, or even if, faith and war belong together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Davenant Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53967574171942,"sku":"9781949716887","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/8859\/5494\/files\/Valiant_Pious_FrontCover.jpg?v=1790611855","url":"https:\/\/jplbooks.com\/products\/valiant-pious-the-idea-of-the-christian-soldier-in-america-1776-1918","provider":"JPL Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}