Download or read book A Sermon Preached in St James Church Warrenton Va on Fast day June 13 1861 written by Otto Sievers Barten and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion and the American Civil War written by Randall M. Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War.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.
Download or read book Upon the Altar of the Nation written by Harry S. Stout and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S. Stout measures the gap between those claims and the war’s actual conduct. Ranging from the home front to the trenches and drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Stout explores the lethal mix of propaganda and ideology that came to justify slaughter on and off the battlefield. At a time when our country is once again at war, Upon the Altar of the Nation is a deeply necessary book.
Download or read book The Confederate Republic written by George C. Rable and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and partisanship. According to Rable, secession marked the beginning of a revolution against politics, in which the Confederacy's founding fathers saw themselves as the true heirs of the American Revolution. Nevertheless, factionalism developed as the war dragged on, with Confederate nationalists emphasizing political unity and support for President Jefferson Davis's administration and libertarian dissenters warning of the dangers of a centralized Confederate government. Both sides claimed to be the legitimate defenders of a genuine southern republicanism and of Confederate nationalism, and the conflict between them carried over from the strictly political sphere to matters of military strategy, civil religion, and education. Rable concludes that despite the war's outcome, the Confederacy's antipolitical legacy had a profound impact on southern politics.
Download or read book Gospel of Disunion written by Mitchell Snay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of religion in the development of southern sectionalism. In Gospel of Disunion Mitchell Snay examines the various ways in which religion adapted to and influenced the development of a distinctive southern culture and politics before the Civil War, adding depth and form to the movement that culminated in secession. From the abolitionist crisis of 1835 through the formation of the Confederacy in 1861, Snay shows how religion worked as an active agent in translating the sectional conflict into a struggle of the highest moral significance. At the same time, the slavery controversy sectionalized southern religion, creating separate institutions and driving theology further toward orthodoxy. By establishing a biblical sanction for slavery, developing a slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, and demonstrating the viability of separation from the North through the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s, religion reinforced central elements in southern political culture and contributed to a moral consensus that made secession possible.
Download or read book Confederate Minds written by Michael T. Bernath and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, some Confederates sought to prove the distinctiveness of the southern people and to legitimate their desire for a separate national existence through the creation of a uniquely southern literature and culture. Michael Bernath follows the activities of a group of southern writers, thinkers, editors, publishers, educators, and ministers--whom he labels Confederate cultural nationalists--in order to trace the rise and fall of a cultural movement dedicated to liberating the South from its longtime dependence on Northern books, periodicals, and teachers. By analyzing the motives driving the struggle for Confederate intellectual independence, by charting its wartime accomplishments, and by assessing its failures, Bernath makes provocative arguments about the nature of Confederate nationalism, life within the Confederacy, and the perception of southern cultural distinctiveness.
Download or read book A Consuming Fire written by Eugene D. Genovese and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of the Confederacy proved traumatic for a people who fought with the belief that God was on their side. Yet, as Eugene D. Genovese writes in A Consuming Fire, Southern Christians continued to trust in the Lord's will. The churches had long defended "southern rights" and insisted upon the divine sanction for slavery, but they also warned that God was testing His people, who must bring slavery up to biblical standards or face the wrath of an angry God. In the eyes of proslavery theorists, clerical and lay, social relations and material conditions affected the extent and pace of the spread of the Gospel and men's preparation to receive it. For proslavery spokesmen, "Christian slavery" offered the South, indeed the world, the best hope for the vital work of preparation for the Kingdom, but they acknowledged that, from a Christian point of view, the slavery practiced in the South left much to be desired. For them, the struggle to reform, or rather transform, social relations was nothing less than a struggle to justify the trust God placed in them when He sanctioned slavery. The reform campaign of prominent ministers and church laymen featured demands to secure slave marriages and family life, repeal the laws against slave literacy, and punish cruel masters. A Consuming Fire analyzes the strength, weakness, and failure of the struggle for reform and the nature and significance of southern Christian orthodoxy and its vision of a proper social order, class structure, and race relations.
Download or read book Fast day Sermon written by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Fast Day Sermon written by Silas Totten and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confederate Imprints written by Marjorie Lyle Crandall and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sermon Preached on the Day of the National Fast January 4th A D 1861 in St John s Church Brooklyn N Y written by Thomas Tompkins Guion and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sermon Preached in St James Church Danbury Conn September 26 1861 written by I. L. Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confederate Imprints written by T. Michael Parrish and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Creation of Confederate Nationalism written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1989-12-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, historians have debated the meaning and significance of Confederate nationalism and the role it played in the outcome of the Civil War. Yet they have paid little attention to the actual development and content of this Confederate ideology. In The Creation of Confederate Nationalism, Drew Gilpin Faust argues that coming to a fuller understanding of southern thought during the Civil War period offers a valuable refraction of the essential assumptions on which the Old South and the Confederacy were built. She shows the benefits of exploring Confederate nationalism “as the South’s commentary upon itself, as its effort to represent southern culture to the world at large, to history, and perhaps most revealingly, to its own people.”
Download or read book Fast Day Sermon Preached in the Good Hope Church Lowndes County Alabama Thursday June 13th 1861 Classic Reprint written by T. L. De Veaux and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fast-Day Sermon, Preached in the Good Hope Church, Lowndes County, Alabama, Thursday, June 13th, 1861 But further still are our people guilty. Walk down the streets of our large cities and even of our villages, and upon the lips of avery large proportion of those you meet, the sacred name of God trembles irreverently; and even little children, following the example of those who should teach them reverence, use it only to add emphasis to their assertions! Sabbath after sabbath is prostituted to game making and sport and merriment at the will of a crowd, instead of being employed by them as a day of sacred rest and worship. The Sabbatic rest of the fields is broken by the shrill whistle of the locomotive, while the rivers are agitated by the paddles of the steamboat. There are other sins which might be brought to view as cause for repentance, and which clamor loudly for reform. O people of the South wound no more your mother, upon whose bosom you have securely nestled; but bear her, now weeping and bleeding, upon your arms to the throne, and while you weep with her and for her, confess her sins and your sins there, with a spirit of humble penitence, and God will ac knowledge and accept the sacrifice, and answer with speedy and abundant blessing. If my people upon whom my name is called, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal the land. 2 Chron. VII. 14. Behold I will bring it health and cure - and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. Jer. XXXIII. 6. But there are peculiar blessings of temporal character hav ing special and immediate reference to the present condition of the land which we should make the subject of importunate prayer. The distracted country calls loudly for peace. She wants not war, and at the sight of blood, shudders and turns pale not from fear, but sorrow. She deprecates the scene of war and carnage and blood. She weeps even while she strikes. She weeps for departed peace - not because she is a coward, but a here! Not because she dare not maintain the right, but because she does not want the right to bleed. She has made overture upon over ture, and yet her plea is not regarded. Her valiant ones cry without - the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. Her foe, hath broken the covenant - he hath despised the cities - he regardeth no man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sermons Preached in St John s Church Mobile on the 13th of June 1861 written by Henry Niles Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sermon for the Times written by Ferdinand Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
