The Civil War as a Theological CrisisUniv of North Carolina Press, 2006 M12 8 - 216 pages Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all sides agreed that the Bible was authoritative, their interpretations of slavery in Scripture led to a full-blown theological crisis. |
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... . Confident pronouncements about what God was ''doing'' in and through the war arose in profusion from all points on the theological compass. Yet as with debates over the Bible and slavery, interpretations Introduction.
... . Confident pronouncements about what God was ''doing'' in and through the war arose in profusion from all points on the theological compass. Yet as with debates over the Bible and slavery, interpretations Introduction.
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Mark A. Noll. pass. Yet as with debates over the Bible and slavery, interpretations of divine providence differed materially depending on the standpoint of the one who identified how God was at work. An extreme example of such difference ...
Mark A. Noll. pass. Yet as with debates over the Bible and slavery, interpretations of divine providence differed materially depending on the standpoint of the one who identified how God was at work. An extreme example of such difference ...
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... responding defense of slavery as a positive good, to the end of the war in , when the success of Union arms rendered further exegetical debate pointless. Why this clash over the interpretation of Scripture—a clash Introduction.
... responding defense of slavery as a positive good, to the end of the war in , when the success of Union arms rendered further exegetical debate pointless. Why this clash over the interpretation of Scripture—a clash Introduction.
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... Debates in the s over what the Bible taught and what God was doing in history always also concerned how Scripture and providence had been perceived in the decades before the war. Studying Religion in the Era of the Civil War On ...
... Debates in the s over what the Bible taught and what God was doing in history always also concerned how Scripture and providence had been perceived in the decades before the war. Studying Religion in the Era of the Civil War On ...
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... debate over the religious meaning of the war by very new works, including Harry Stout's moral history of the Civil War and the long-awaited study of the South's slaveholding classes from Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese.25 A ...
... debate over the religious meaning of the war by very new works, including Harry Stout's moral history of the Civil War and the long-awaited study of the South's slaveholding classes from Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese.25 A ...
Contents
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2 Historical Contexts | 17 |
3 The Crisis over the Bible | 31 |
4 The negro question lies far deeper than the slavery question | 51 |
5 The Crisis over Providence | 75 |
6 Opinions of Protestants Abroad | 95 |
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