Foreword / by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
Introduction
Fighting the good fight
Contesting the good fight : warfare and the American Revolution
The power to "kill and make alive" : the spiritual battle and the body in post-Revolutionary America
Beating their plowshares into swords : Methodists and violence in antebellum America
Methodist respectability and the decline of the good fight for salvation
The Christian's warfare and social violence.