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Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein Acknowledgments Introduction one · Fighting the Good Fight two · Contesting the Good Fight Warfare and the American Revolution three · The Power to “Kill and Make Alive” The Spiritual Battle and the Body in Post-Revolutionary America four · Beating Their Plowshares into Swords Methodists and Violence in Antebellum America five · Methodist Respectability and the Decline of the Good Fight for Salvation six · The Christian’s Warfare and Social Violence Notes Bibliography Index Contents ix xi 1 13 41 69 93 131 161 179 203 219 ...

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