James P. Byrd

Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research

James P. Byrd's research interests center on theology and biblical interpretation in American history, religion and war, and the history of Baptists in America. His current book project, Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution, will be published in June of 2013 by Oxford University Press.

His course offerings include:

• Religion, Slavery, and the Civil War
• Religion and War in American History
• History and Polity in the Baptist Tradition
• American Revivals
• American Apocalyptic Thought and Movements
• Theology in America, 1630-1865
• The Theology of Jonathan Edwards. 

His publications include:

• Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, Spring 2013)
• Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians (WJK)
• The Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution, and the Bible (Mercer University Press)
• "We Can If We Will: Regeneration and Benevolence" in After Jonathan Edwards: The Courses of the New England Theology (ed. Oliver D. Crisp and Douglas A. Sweeney, Oxford University Press, 2012)
• "The New World of North America and Canada and the Globalization of Critical Biblical Scholarship" in The Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation, Vol. III, the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (ed. Magne Saeboe, forthcoming)
• "Baptist Tradition and Heritage" in Encyclopedia of Religion in America (ed. Charles Lippy and Peter Williams, CQ)
• several articles in The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity.