Religion and the American Civil WarRandall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson Oxford University Press, 1998 M11 5 - 448 páginas The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American history. |
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... victory went , Americans believed , to those whom God had chosen . Midway through the war , some southern clergymen began to preach sermons calling for a new religious revival to cleanse the South of its failures to get right with God ...
... victory went , Americans believed , to those whom God had chosen . Midway through the war , some southern clergymen began to preach sermons calling for a new religious revival to cleanse the South of its failures to get right with God ...
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... victory and defeat , each side looked to God for meaning . Clearly no single volume of essays can make up for a century of neglect . But the present collection does , in our view , represent a platform of depth , dimension , and ...
... victory and defeat , each side looked to God for meaning . Clearly no single volume of essays can make up for a century of neglect . But the present collection does , in our view , represent a platform of depth , dimension , and ...
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... victory of the Union , was not so sure about God's plans for victor or vanquished . As Ronald C. White Jr. shows in " Lincoln's Sermon on the Mount : The Second Inaugural , " Lincoln used the occasion of his second inaugural in 1865 to ...
... victory of the Union , was not so sure about God's plans for victor or vanquished . As Ronald C. White Jr. shows in " Lincoln's Sermon on the Mount : The Second Inaugural , " Lincoln used the occasion of his second inaugural in 1865 to ...
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... victory in no way meant that God had forsaken the South . God showed His favor by bestowing spiritual gifts on the South . So said the southern apologists . Thus , in the mythology of the Lost Cause , the southerners became like the ...
... victory in no way meant that God had forsaken the South . God showed His favor by bestowing spiritual gifts on the South . So said the southern apologists . Thus , in the mythology of the Lost Cause , the southerners became like the ...
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... victory of one perspective over another . To that extent we are all at each other's mercy , each dependent on the other so that the conversation can endure . I offer as my contribution to the conversation a story about what happened to ...
... victory of one perspective over another . To that extent we are all at each other's mercy , each dependent on the other so that the conversation can endure . I offer as my contribution to the conversation a story about what happened to ...
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Religion and the American Civil War Randall M. Miller,Harry S. Stout,Charles Reagan Wilson Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Religion and the American Civil War Randall M. Miller,Harry S. Stout,Charles Reagan Wilson Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Religion and the American Civil War Randall M. Miller,Harry S. Stout,Charles Reagan Wilson Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
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Página 199 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Página 213 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow, the cause of the war.
Página 36 - ... wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended through wastes of their desolated land...
Página 80 - The parties in this conflict are not merely abolitionists and slaveholders ; they are Atheists, Socialists, Communists, Red Republicans, Jacobins on the one side, and the friends of order and regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is the battle-ground, Christianity and atheism the combatants, and the progress of humanity the stake.
Página 213 - NEITHER PARTY EXPECTED FOR THE WAR THE MAGNITUDE OR THE DURATION WHICH IT HAS ALREADY ATTAINED. NEITHER ANTICIPATED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT MIGHT CEASE WITH OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD ' CEASE. EACH LOOKED FOR AN EASIER TRIUMPH AND A RESULT LESS FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTOUNDING.
Página 36 - But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.
Página 401 - God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself; what does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen...
Referencias a este libro
Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery Stephen R. Haynes Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
While God is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers Steven E. Woodworth Vista previa limitada - 2001 |