I finished A Fiery Gospel and hope to write a review soon. As I posted before, Julia Ward Howe was a Unitarian whose bad hermeneutics and bad theology became the perfect combination to create a vaguely religious and nationalistic poem to claim "God" for our side. There were some who realized the contradiction between Howe's beliefs and Christianity, but they found a way around it. This is an excerpt from Moody Bible Institute's Christian Workers Magazine from 1917. They published The Battle Hymn as part of their "patriotic duty." The editors were fully aware of Howe's theological problems, but they "reassured their readers that "The Battle Hymn" could be made safe for Bible-believing Christians." 1 Mrs. Howe was not an evangelical Christian, her strongest sympathies being with the Unitarians, and yet as one reads the hymn, he is impressed with the fact that the Unitarianism it represents is almost more orthodox than the so-c...