The Civil War as a theological crisis / by Mark A. Noll.
Material type: TextSeries: Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War eraPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 199 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780807877203
- 0807877204
- 0807830127
- 9780807830123
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects
- Slavery and the church -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Church history -- 19th century
- Slavery -- United States -- Religious aspects
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
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- NP 6020
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-191) and index.
Introduction -- Historical contexts -- The crisis over the Bible -- "The Negro question lies far deeper than the slavery question" -- The crisis over providence -- Opinions of Protestants abroad -- Catholic viewpoints -- Retrospect and prospect.
Print version record.
Although Christian believers agreed that the Bible was authoritative and that it should be interpreted through commonsense principles, there was rampant disagreement about what Scripture taught about slavery. This book tells how most Americans were radically divided in their interpretations of what God was doing in and through the Civil War.
English.
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