As we celebrate America’s 250th, this is a timely question to ask: Was the American Revolutionary war biblical and just – religiously permissible and religiously justifiable – in the minds of the leaders and colonists who fought in and supported it?

It is our hope that by answering this question, each of us will be more effective stewards of religion’s role in the American experiment in self-government.

Season 4, Episode 16 – Was the Revolutionary War Biblical and Just?

Guest Bio

Mark David Hall is professor at the Robertson School of Government at Regent University. He is renown scholar of early America, with expertise in Christianity’s role in the America’s experiment in self-government. Dr. Hall is also widely regarded as a leading student of religious liberty and church-state relations in America and is the author of many books including Proclaim Liberty Through All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans and Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth.

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https://www.markdavidhall.org/

Podcast Support

Scholarly support provided by Dr. Lauren Turek, Associate Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Technical audio and video assistance provided by Dr. Randall Stephens, a Professor of American and British Studies at the University of Oslo.

Religion in the American Experience is a podcast of the private, digital-first National Museum of American Religion, which tells the story of how religion has shaped America and how America has shaped religion. This includes the establishment of religious freedom in the United States Constitution’s Article VI and Bill of Rights religion clauses.