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Gods Battalions The Case for the Crusades Rodney Stark ~ “GOD’S BATTALIONS launches a frontal assault on the comfortable myths that scholars have popularized about the crusades The results are startling His greatest achievement is to make us see the crusaders on their own terms” Philip Jenkins author of The Lost History of Christianity
Gods Battalions The Case for the Crusades Rodney Stark ~ In Gods Battalions awardwinning author Rodney Stark takes on the longheld view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism conducted for land loot and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims
Gods Battalions The Case for the Crusades ~ Ideally followers of the prince of peace are to avoid the sword and shield Clearly this has not always been the case Frequently in the crosshairs of critics are the Christian wars against Muslims known as the Crusades commonly viewed as the birth of European imperialism and the forced spread of Christianity
Gods Battalions The Case for the Crusades by Rodney Stark ~ In Gods Battalions The Case for the Crusades author Rodney Stark debunks many of the popular myths surrounding the Crusades and gives a justification for one of the most poorly reputed military actions in history
Gods Battalions The Case for the Crusades by Rodney ~ God’s Battalions avoids the blackandwhite nonsense of current secular thinkers who condemn the Crusades as part of their condemnation of the Catholic Church and of much later Western imperialism …Stark demonstrates a more sophisticated view of history religion and culture
Gods Battalions The Case For The Crusades Rodney Stark ~ In Gods Battalions Rodney Stark argues that the medieval Crusades were not waged in order to gain land steal money or to win converts as popularly believed today Instead Stark suggests that the Crusades were foremost a military response to unwarranted aggression by expanding Turkish invaders
God’s Battalions The Case for the Crusades by Rodney ~ They were not conducted for land loot or converts The crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims They sincerely believed that they served in God’s battalions This conclusion will probably jar against everything you have ever been told about the Crusades and if for no reason other than that this book is worth a read
Review of God’s Battalions The Case for the Crusades ~ The Crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims They sincerely believed that they served in God’s battalions” p 248 Truth matters in and of itself
A Review of Gods Battalions — The Case for the Crusades ~ History is one of the victims of the current conflict as the muchmaligned and illremembered Crusades have been recast time and again to serve various agendas In God’s Battalions — The Case for the Crusades Professor Rodney Stark is dedicated to the task of setting forth a popular history of the Crusades
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