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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... South . Faust cogently demonstrates how " national politics were intimately tied to religion " such that " the most fundamental source of legitimization for the Confederacy was Christianity . " Even more explicit is James Silver's ...
... South Carolina Press , 1992 ) ; Mitchell Snay , Gospel of Disunion : Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 1993 ) ; Elizabeth Fox - Genovese , " To Be Worthy of God's Favor : Southern ...
... South in their sympathies by the end of the war such as to hardly fit the convenient label of Northern or Southern ! Such were the circumstances surrounding a religious newspaper titled The True Presbyterian no less committed to things ...
... South was politically domesticated . Insofar as there even existed a movement of dissent in the Border States serves to justify the broad stroke conclusions of recent histories about wartime religion in America . Rather , what will be ...
... South in contrast to what might have been derived from a typical American history textbook of the 1960s . It is in continuum with studies like Brooks Holifield's The Gentlemen Theo- logians and James Farmer's The Metaphysical ...
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 |