Gregg L. Frazer is professor of history and political studies and Dean of the School of Humanities at the Master's University. He is the author of The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution, also from Kansas.
God against the Revolution is a well-researched account of
the published writings of Protestant Christian ministers who
opposed the American Revolution. Frazer helpfully organizes the
arguments of clerical Loyalists into five pertinent categories:
arguments from Scripture, from reason, from law, from the
contemporary situation, and in response to the actions of colonial
patriots who promoted the revolution. The book argues persuasively
that Loyalist appeals to these various authorities and in response
to contemporary developments proceeded from learned, thoughtful,
and morally upright spokesmen whose voices now deserve the hearing
they were for the most part denied two centuries ago." - Mark Noll,
author of In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American
Public Life, 1492-1783
"Because history is often a tale told by the winners, there have
been many studies of Patriot clergymen who preached a blend of
Protestantism and Whig republicanism to support the revolutionary
cause. There have been far fewer examinations of how they were
answered from Loyalist pulpits. Frazer's study offers the fullest
and most systematic analysis of the Loyalist clergymen's biblical,
theoretical, legal, and rational arguments against the American
rebellion. It is an important contribution to the religious and
intellectual history of the revolutionary era." - Christopher
Grasso, professor of history, College of William and Mary
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