Onward, Christian Soldiers

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Onward, Christian Soldiers

God's War is the new standard in the field.
Review by Alfred J. Andrea


To best understand Christopher Tyerman's impressive God's War: A New History of the Crusades (Belknap/Harvard), you must go back more than a half century, to when Sir Steven Runciman produced his three-volume History of the Crusades.

A monumental work, it had flaws more visible today than when it was written.

One of the misconceptions that Runciman was instrumental in popularizing (and that infuses Terry Jones's awful, 1995 made-for-TV program The Crusades) was the idea that the Crusades were an assault on the sophisticated and superior civilizations of Islam and Byzantium by a barbarian West...


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Bush's Heresy ??


His hope for Iraq is "more of a theological perspective," he says.
Ted Olsen


David Brooks's New York Times column Tuesday has launched a fascinating theological discussion among some a-list bloggers.


At issue is a statement Bush made while meeting Friday with ten conservative journalists. Brooks has the quote in part, but National Review Online's Rich Lowry posted it in full after Brooks's column came out:


'The other debate is whether or not it is a hopeless venture to encourage the spread of liberty.


Most of you all around this table are much better historians than I am. And people have said, you know, this is Wilsonian, it's hopelessly idealistic.


One, it is idealistic, to this extent: It's idealistic to believe people long to be free. And nothing will change my belief.


I come at it many different ways. Really not primarily from a political science perspective, frankly; it's more of a theological perspective. I do believe there is an Almighty, and I believe a gift of that Almighty to all is freedom.


And I will tell you that is a principle that no one can convince me that doesn't exist.


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