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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... divine providence, was clear. Or at least it was clear to the ministers as individuals, many of whom were eager to raise a trumpet for the Lord. As a group, however, it was a different story, for the trumpets blown so forthrightly were ...
... divine providence, was clear. Or at least it was clear to the ministers as individuals, many of whom were eager to raise a trumpet for the Lord. As a group, however, it was a different story, for the trumpets blown so forthrightly were ...
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... divine providence. 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.
... divine providence. 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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... divine providence differed materially depending on the standpoint of the one who identified how God was at work. An extreme example of such difference is provided by a pair of discourses from April and April , which ...
... divine providence differed materially depending on the standpoint of the one who identified how God was at work. An extreme example of such difference is provided by a pair of discourses from April and April , which ...
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... divine providence—the belief that God ruled manifestly over the affairs of people and nations—added fuel to the crisis, particularly as interpretations about God's actions in and through the Civil War came to clash as fundamentally as ...
... divine providence—the belief that God ruled manifestly over the affairs of people and nations—added fuel to the crisis, particularly as interpretations about God's actions in and through the Civil War came to clash as fundamentally as ...
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... divine providence, so too the examination of foreign religious opinion on the American conflict is designed to probe religious reasoning about the War between the States with the same seriousness that legions of Civil War scholars have ...
... divine providence, so too the examination of foreign religious opinion on the American conflict is designed to probe religious reasoning about the War between the States with the same seriousness that legions of Civil War scholars have ...
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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