The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

Mark A. Noll (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2006 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3012-3 (ISBN)

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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.

The Civil War was a major turning point in American religious thought, argues Mark A. Noll. Although Christian believers agreed with one another that the Bible was authoritative and that it should be interpreted through commonsense principles, there was rampant disagreement about what Scripture taught about slavery. Furthermore, most Americans continued to believe that God ruled over the affairs of people and nations, but they were radically divided in their interpretations of what God was doing in and through the war. In addition to examining what white and black Americans wrote about slavery and race, Noll surveys commentary from foreign observers. Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada saw clearly that no matter how much the voluntary reliance on scriptural authority had contributed to the construction of national civilization, if there were no higher religious authority than personal interpretation regarding an issue as contentious as slavery, the resulting public deadlock would amount to a full-blown theological crisis. By highlighting this theological conflict, Noll adds to our understanding of not only the origins but also the intensity of the Civil War.

MARK A. NOLL is the McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. He is author, editor, or coeditor of 35 books, including the award-winning America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2006
Reihe/Serie	The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-8078-3012-7 / 0807830127
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-3012-3 / 9780807830123
Zustand	Neuware