num_pages: 300
description: 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 religion's 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.
language: English
title: The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation
publisher: Isi Books