The Wars of the Lord

The Wars of the Lordis a grim but gripping chronicle of seventeenth-century New England. With careful research and lucid prose, Matthew Tuininga contends that English Puritans were not hypocrites for professing Christianity while displacing and sometimes slaughtering Indians. Instead, the English understood epidemics, settlements, and wars as components of Christ’s victory against Satan.” * John G. Turner, author ofThey Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty *The Wars of the Lordis the best synthesis of colonial-Indian relations in seventeenth-century New England since Alden T. Vaughan’sNew England Frontiermore than half a century ago.Thoroughly researched, crisply written, and balanced in perspective, Matthew J. Tuininga makes a compelling case that religion infused the entire Puritan enterprise, including its horrors. This book puts the colonialin colonial America. * David J. Silverman, author of This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving *

Matthew J. Tuininga is Professor of Christian Ethics and the History of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, MI, where he has taught since 2015. He is the author of Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church: Christ’s Two Kingdoms (2017).