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Book John Bachman

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  • Author : John Bachman
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0820338184
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book John Bachman written by John Bachman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bachman (1790-1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a prominent Lutheran minister. This is the first collection of his writings, containing selections from his three major books, his letters, and his articles on plants and animals, education, religion, agriculture, and the human species. Bachman was the leading authority on North American mammals. He was responsible for the descriptions of the 147 mammal species included in Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, a massive work produced in collaboration with John James Audubon. Bachman relied entirely on scientific evidence in his work and was exceptional among his fellow naturalists for studying the whole of natural history. Bachman also relied on scientific evidence in his Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race. He showed that human beings constitute a single species that developed as varieties equivalent to the varieties of domesticated animals. In this work, perhaps his most significant accomplishment, Bachman stood nearly alone in challenging the polygenetic views of Louis Agassiz and others that white and black people descended from different progenitors. Bachman was also an important figure in the establishment of Lutheranism in the Southeast. He wrote the first American monograph on the doctrines of Martin Luther and the history of the Reformation. Bachman served for fifty-six years as minister of St. John's Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and was one of the founders of Newberry College.

Book A Defense of Luther and the Reformation

Download or read book A Defense of Luther and the Reformation written by John Bachman and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Science  Race  and Religion in the American South

Download or read book Science Race and Religion in the American South written by Lester D. Stephens and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States--Philadelphia, Boston, and New York--exceeded Charleston in natural history studies, and the city boasted an excellent museum of natural history. Examining the scientific activities and contributions of John Bachman, Edmund Ravenel, John Edwards Holbrook, Lewis R. Gibbes, Francis S. Holmes, and John McCrady, Lester Stephens uncovers the important achievements of Charleston's circle of naturalists in a region that has conventionally been dismissed as largely devoid of scientific interests. Stephens devotes particular attention to the special problems faced by the Charleston naturalists and to the ways in which their religious and racial beliefs interacted with and shaped their scientific pursuits. In the end, he shows, cultural commitments proved stronger than scientific principles. When the South seceded from the Union in 1861, the members of the Charleston circle placed regional patriotism above science and union and supported the Confederate cause. The ensuing war had a devastating impact on the Charleston naturalists--and on science in the South. The Charleston circle never fully recovered from the blow, and a century would elapse before the South took an equal role in the pursuit of mainstream scientific research.

Book Catholics  Lost Cause

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  • Author : Adam L. Tate
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 2018-09-30
  • ISBN : 0268104204
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Catholics Lost Cause written by Adam L. Tate and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fascinating Catholics’ Lost Cause, Adam Tate argues that the primary goal of clerical leaders in antebellum South Carolina was to build a rapprochement between Catholicism and southern culture that would aid them in rooting Catholic institutions in the region in order to both sustain and spread their faith. A small minority in an era of prevalent anti-Catholicism, the Catholic clergy of South Carolina engaged with the culture around them, hoping to build an indigenous southern Catholicism. Tate’s book describes the challenges to antebellum Catholics in defending their unique religious and ethnic identities while struggling not to alienate their overwhelmingly Protestant counterparts. In particular, Tate cites the work of three antebellum bishops of the Charleston diocese, John England, Ignatius Reynolds, and Patrick Lynch, who sought to build a southern Catholicism in tune with their specific regional surroundings. As tensions escalated and the sectional crisis deepened in the 1850s, South Carolina Catholic leaders supported the Confederate States of America, thus aligning themselves and their flocks to the losing side of the Civil War. The war devastated Catholic institutions and finances in South Carolina, leaving postbellum clerical leaders to rebuild within a much different context. Scholars of American Catholic history, southern history, and American history will be thoroughly engrossed in this largely overlooked era of American Catholicism.

Book Divine Variations

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  • Author : Terence Keel
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-09
  • ISBN : 1503604373
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Divine Variations written by Terence Keel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought and contemporary scientific perceptions of human difference. He argues that, instead of a rupture between religion and modern biology on the question of human origins, modern scientific theories of race are, in fact, an extension of Christian intellectual history. Keel's study draws on ancient and early modern theological texts and biblical commentaries, works in Christian natural philosophy, seminal studies in ethnology and early social science, debates within twentieth-century public health research, and recent genetic analysis of population differences and ancient human DNA. From these sources, Keel demonstrates that Christian ideas about creation, ancestry, and universalism helped form the basis of modern scientific accounts of human diversity—despite the ostensible shift in modern biology towards scientific naturalism, objectivity, and value neutrality. By showing the connections between Christian thought and scientific racial thinking, this book calls into question the notion that science and religion are mutually exclusive intellectual domains and proposes that the advance of modern science did not follow a linear process of secularization.

Book Remembering the Reformation

Download or read book Remembering the Reformation written by Declan Marmion and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther’s revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism. From the point of that rupture, up to and including most of the 20th century, the history of theological and ecclesial readings of Luther has been controlled largely by a rubric assuming the inevitability of fracture and the portrayal of Luther as a veritable bête noire of Catholic history and theology. Remembering the Reformation enters into this contested history and pursues a more nuanced and considered reading of Luther’s relationship with the Catholic tradition, from his Augustinian roots and medieval training to his reading of scripture and investigations of ecclesiology, as well as his continued relevance and challenge to Catholic theology today. An international consortium of scholars, Catholic and Protestant, contribute to this volume and provide a thoughtful, textured reimagining of Luther for an ecumenical future. Marking the 500th anniversary of the inauguration of Luther’s movement for reform, this volume aims to bring Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals into conversation in a shared, but distinct, theological space.

Book Maria Martin s World

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  • Author : Debra Lindsay
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2018-02-27
  • ISBN : 0817319514
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Maria Martin s World written by Debra Lindsay and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family -- Faith, the Lutheran way -- Painting from nature : Maria Martin and John James Audubon -- Living together/working together : collaboration and kinship -- Family and science : beyond botanicals -- Family and science : quadrupeds -- Faith : "Our trust in God

Book The Evangelical Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Evangelical Quarterly Review written by Charles Philip Krauth and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Southern Presbyterian Review

Download or read book The Southern Presbyterian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Evangelical Review

Download or read book The Evangelical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Baptist System Examined  the Church Vindicated  and Sectarianism Rebuked

Download or read book The Baptist System Examined the Church Vindicated and Sectarianism Rebuked written by Joseph Augustus Seiss and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Rome and Back Again

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  • Author : Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1856
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book To Rome and Back Again written by Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hymns  Selected and Original  for Public and Private Worship

Download or read book Hymns Selected and Original for Public and Private Worship written by General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Baptist System Examined  The Church Vindicated and Sectarianism Rebuked   A Review of  Fuller on Baptism and the Terms of Communion

Download or read book The Baptist System Examined The Church Vindicated and Sectarianism Rebuked A Review of Fuller on Baptism and the Terms of Communion written by Fidelis Scrutator and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1854, this volume by Joseph Seiss contains a treatise on the subject of baptism, originally taken from the "Lutheran Observer". Contents include: "Subject of the Review described, and the Baptist system stated", "General Considerations against it", "Baptizo not a stronger word that Bapto", "Explanations, a digression", "Immersion not the only meaning of Baptizo", "Passages relied on by Baptists to prove that Baptizo means total immersion and nothing else", etc. Joseph Augustus Seiss (March 18, 1823 - June 20, 1904) was an American theologian and Lutheran minister most famous for his contributions to the fields of pyramidology and dispensationalism. His best-known work is "The Great Pyramid of Egypt, Miracle in Stone: Secrets and Advanced Knowledge" (1877), considered a primary text of pyramidology. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.