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).

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."

• AbbreviationsIntroduction - The First Encounter Part I - SettlementChapter 1 - The PilgrimsChapter 2 -The PuritansChapter 3 - The Lord has Cleared Our TitleChapter 4 - War with the PequotsChapter 5 - Massacre at MysticChapter 6 - Miantonomi Part II - MissionChapter 7 - The Conquests and Triumphs of ChristChapter 8 - ReparationsChapter 9 - NatickChapter 10 - The Pocumtuck WarChapter 11 - God, King, and LandChapter 12 - Praying TownsChapter 13 - The Wampanoags Part III - WarChapter 14 - Who Are Friends and Who Are Foes?Chapter 15 - God Does Not Go Forth With Our ArmiesChapter 16 - No Indians Can Be TrustedChapter 17 - The NarragansettsChapter 18 - New England in FlamesChapter 19 - NegotiationsChapter 20 - New England's ReckoningChapter 21 - Turning PointChapter 22 - Algonquian Defeat EpilogueBibliographyIndex

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).

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."

• AbbreviationsIntroduction - The First Encounter Part I - SettlementChapter 1 - The PilgrimsChapter 2 -The PuritansChapter 3 - The Lord has Cleared Our TitleChapter 4 - War with the PequotsChapter 5 - Massacre at MysticChapter 6 - Miantonomi Part II - MissionChapter 7 - The Conquests and Triumphs of ChristChapter 8 - ReparationsChapter 9 - NatickChapter 10 - The Pocumtuck WarChapter 11 - God, King, and LandChapter 12 - Praying TownsChapter 13 - The Wampanoags Part III - WarChapter 14 - Who Are Friends and Who Are Foes?Chapter 15 - God Does Not Go Forth With Our ArmiesChapter 16 - No Indians Can Be TrustedChapter 17 - The NarragansettsChapter 18 - New England in FlamesChapter 19 - NegotiationsChapter 20 - New England's ReckoningChapter 21 - Turning PointChapter 22 - Algonquian Defeat EpilogueBibliographyIndex

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).

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."

• AbbreviationsIntroduction - The First Encounter Part I - SettlementChapter 1 - The PilgrimsChapter 2 -The PuritansChapter 3 - The Lord has Cleared Our TitleChapter 4 - War with the PequotsChapter 5 - Massacre at MysticChapter 6 - Miantonomi Part II - MissionChapter 7 - The Conquests and Triumphs of ChristChapter 8 - ReparationsChapter 9 - NatickChapter 10 - The Pocumtuck WarChapter 11 - God, King, and LandChapter 12 - Praying TownsChapter 13 - The Wampanoags Part III - WarChapter 14 - Who Are Friends and Who Are Foes?Chapter 15 - God Does Not Go Forth With Our ArmiesChapter 16 - No Indians Can Be TrustedChapter 17 - The NarragansettsChapter 18 - New England in FlamesChapter 19 - NegotiationsChapter 20 - New England's ReckoningChapter 21 - Turning PointChapter 22 - Algonquian Defeat EpilogueBibliographyIndex