Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.