The New England Pulpit and the American Revolution: When American Pastors Preached Politics, Resisted Tyranny and Founded a Nation on the Bible

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The diminishing light of civil liberty in this land is linked directly to the lack of preaching on it in today’s pulpits. Dr. Alice Stanley Baldwin’s wonderful book is a welcome antidote to this problem, will have to we be willing to take it.

Dr. Stanley Baldwin illustrates how the preachers of the early American era thought and practiced just the opposite as today. Mountains of research in colonial sermons, tracts, pamphlets, and other publications, reveals how the pulpits of colonial The us rang constantly on all aspects of the public square: good rulers, good laws, good forms of government, and the blessings of liberty. We especially hear of those choice values of biblical order that became the battle cries of American independence.

Commenting on the classic paraphrase of “life, liberty, and property,” Stanley Baldwin proclaims,

“No one can fully bear in mind the American Revolution and the American constitutional system without a realization of the long history and religious associations which lie at the back of these words; without realizing that for a hundred years before the Revolution men were taught that these rights were safe by divine, inviolable law.”

Covering all of the revolutionary era, she concludes that the central force at the back of it all used to be the pulpit’s application of the Word of God to politics and government. She says, “It should not be forgotten, in the multiplicity of authors mentioned, that the source of greatest authority and the one most commonly used used to be the Bible.” And she proves that “from the law of God they derived their political theories.”

It is long past time to get better the great and powerful preaching of our founding era—a time when pastors did not fear to preach politics, resist tyranny, and found their governments on the Bible. Dr. Stanley Baldwin’s nearly-forgotten book is a powerful resource toward that end. We recommend it to every pastor and every Christian in hope that they follow the example of its subject matter even more.

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