This book explores how polarised interpretations of America's past influence the present and
vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump's 'Make America …

If we think of the nation as a table, perhaps a Thanksgiving one, who belongs around it?
Who is the host, and who the guest? What are the criteria for inclusion, and who gets to …

This article examines the famous “city on a hill” sermon delivered by John Winthrop at the
start of colonial Massachusetts Bay. It focuses on belief-formation, looking at how Winthrop …

Judges is a book for our time. It forces readers to come face to face with the way that faith
speaks into the situations we encounter and read about in our newsfeeds. Warfare …

To continue the work of Packer and others on the Puritans' reflective humanism and balance
scholarship that claims the Puritans limited or twisted love, this dissertation shows that …

This thesis addresses the ways a group of clergymen and lay people in colonial British North
America used “providentialism,” or the effort to explain the divine meaning behind worldly …

The English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century gave expression to the first major
debates about religious toleration in British history. By revealing the international and …

Recent scholarship has recognised the continuous connection between religion and warfare
in post-Westphalian Europe. This entanglement was reflected not only in the diplomacy …