Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Spiritual Conquest
Chapter 2: World Chaos
Chapter 3: The Lonely Flame
Chapter 4: For Christ and Country
Chapter 5: Reviving the Heartland Chapter 6: Battleground
Europe
Chapter 7: God's Marshall Plan
Chapter 8: Spiritual Rearmament
Epilogue
James D. Strasburg is Assistant Professor of History at Hillsdale College.
"After World War II, American Protestants sought to revive European
civilization by re-Christianizing Germany. This brilliant,
elegantly written book explores this project in rich detail, along
the way revealing how American Protestants exported their own
culture wars to a continent in ruin. Ultimately, those who
underwent the most profound changes were American Protestants
themselves." -- Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit,
Shield of Faith:
Religion in American War and Diplomacy
"Lost in the recent flourish of historical scholarship on American
Protestantism in the 20th century global arena is a relationship
that had much to do with inspiring and informing such international
engagement in the first place: that which connected the U.S. and
Germany in theological exchange. God's Marshall Plan not only fills
that gap, but also charts with nuance and moving detail the
decades-long transatlantic endeavors that drew the Protestant
cultures of these two places together, with profound impact on
religion and politics on a world stage. This beautifully crafted
and timely book reveals not just how German-American relations
during wartime
shaped modern global Christianity but also how it raised
unanswered, and still relevant, questions about the nature and
ramifications of the debate between Christian nationalism and
Christian globalism in our modern age." -- Darren Dochuk, Author of
Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern
America
"God's Marshall Plan is a smart, ambitious, and original book that
puts religion at the center of American policy in Cold War Europe.
This compelling history forces us to wrestle with what we think we
know about how American religion, politics, and foreign policy
intersected at home and abroad as the US emerged from World War II
to become a global superpower." -- Matthew Avery Sutton, author of
Double Crossed:ÂThe Missionaries Who Spied for
the United States During theÂSecond World War
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