A Kingdom Not of this World: Stuart Robinson's Struggle to Distinguish the Sacred from the Secular During the Civil WarMercer University Press, 2002 - 296 pages Stuart Robinson was a prominent Presbyterian newspaper editor who took upon himself the dangerous task of distinguishing between the spiritual world and within a border state "city of conflict" during the Civil War. Presently, historians tend to depict religion during the American Civil War as domesticated under sectional nationalism -- where theologizing was directed at justifying the war in order to forge either a northern or southern Zion. Graham argues that such one-sided depictions do not sufficiently account for either the existence of a border state phenomenon during the civil war or the kind of theologizing that was being propagated from out of the border states against the domestication of religion to sectional politics. In A Kingdom Not of This World: Stuart Robinson's Struggle to Distinguish the Sacred from the Secular During the Civil War Preston D. Graham, Jr. presents a case study of a rather sizeable movement among border state Presbyterians, with special attention given to their most celebrated and influential leader, the Dr. Rev. Stuart Robinson of Louisville, Kentucky. Given the significance of Robinson's theologizing relative to the American doctrine of the separation of church and state, several primary resources are included in a reader portion of the appendix. |
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... Assembly in 1869 . The story of Stuart Robinson and the Border State Presbyterians is in itself a fascinating story worth telling if but for the sake of knowing a piece of history often forgotten . For it is a story that documents the ...
... and ecclesiastical liberalism " ( Genovese , 120 ) . Again , this was an irony within Southern religion that needed to be exposed . more those of the Southern than of the national assembly 6 A KINGDOM NOT OF THIS WORLD.
... assembly . " 12 Likewise , historian Jack Maddex concluded that " confederate Presbyterians knew nothing of a rigidly ' non - secular ' church .... Thornwell's foll- owers in the Confederacy and Robinson's in the Border States shared ...
... Robinson's ecclesial context as he participated in the courts of the Northern , Old School , Presbyterian Church ( PCUSA ) . This aspect of the story , which formally began in the Old School General Assembly of 1861 INTRODUCTION 9.
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Contents
The Historical Context Stuart Robinsons Confessional Formation up to the Civil War | 11 |
The Social Context Notorious Inflictions during the War | 41 |
The Embodiment of the BorderState Martyr during the Civil War and the Case of Samuel B Mcpheeters | 64 |
The Theological Context The True Presbyterian and an Atypical Prospectus | 90 |
The Ecclesial Context Border State Politics for a Nonpolitical Church | 133 |
A Proposed Historical and Moral Revision | 167 |
Robinson after the War | 186 |
A Stuart Robinson Reader In ScotoAmerican Ecclesiology | 191 |