The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation

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 religions 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.