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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... Confessional Formation Up to the Civil War 11 2. The Social Context : Notorious Border State Inflictions During the War 41 Excursus . The Embodiment of the Border State Martyr during the Civil War and the Case of Samuel B. Mcpheeters 64 ...
... ( confessional ) characteristics and more by its sectional characteristics . Nineteenth - century Ameri- can religion is subsequently depicted in monolithic terms , albeit Southern and Northern , and is suspiciously absent of any ...
... confessional rationale and tradition would articulate such dissent ? And what kind of ironic social circumstances would , at the same time , make such a confession plausible , popular , and dangerous ? And how was it that these same ...
... confessional history before the war , the order of the chapters is of no real significance . Chapter one , which traces Robinson's confessional formation , will make the case that his apolitical doctrine of the church was not new to him ...
... , theological , and ecclesial contexts that comprise the Pres- byterian experience within the Border States during the Civil War . 1 THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT : STUART ROBINSON'S CONFESSIONAL FORMATION UP 10 A KINGDOM NOT OF THIS WORLD.
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 |