A Kingdom Not of this World: Stuart Robinson's Struggle to Distinguish the Sacred from the Secular During the Civil WarMercer University Press, 2002 - 296 Seiten Stuart Robinson was a prominent Presbyterian newspaper editor who took upon himself the dangerous task of distinguishing between the spiritual world and within a border state "city of conflict" during the Civil War. Presently, historians tend to depict religion during the American Civil War as domesticated under sectional nationalism -- where theologizing was directed at justifying the war in order to forge either a northern or southern Zion. Graham argues that such one-sided depictions do not sufficiently account for either the existence of a border state phenomenon during the civil war or the kind of theologizing that was being propagated from out of the border states against the domestication of religion to sectional politics. In A Kingdom Not of This World: Stuart Robinson's Struggle to Distinguish the Sacred from the Secular During the Civil War Preston D. Graham, Jr. presents a case study of a rather sizeable movement among border state Presbyterians, with special attention given to their most celebrated and influential leader, the Dr. Rev. Stuart Robinson of Louisville, Kentucky. Given the significance of Robinson's theologizing relative to the American doctrine of the separation of church and state, several primary resources are included in a reader portion of the appendix. |
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... dissent or nuance . And again , the perception one gets from such depictions is of pulpits turned into political stump oratories , the Southern pulpits driven to perpetuate their peculiar institution , the Northern pulpits driven to ...
... dissent did exist during the Civil War , one that decried the politicization of the church and theology ? How , for instance , might it alter the prevailing historical consensus , if during the war there existed a rather popular ...
... dissent in the Border States serves to justify the broad stroke conclusions of recent histories about wartime religion in America . Rather , what will be challenged is that all religion was given to politics . It will be shown that ...
... dissent was " no novelty with us . " They argued that their idea was the " true American " idea of the separation of church and state as had been articulated out of the Old South context of Virginia during the Revolutionary War era and ...
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The Historical Context Stuart Robinsons Confessional Formation up to the Civil War | 11 |
The Social Context Notorious Inflictions during the War | 41 |
The Embodiment of the BorderState Martyr during the Civil War and the Case of Samuel B Mcpheeters | 64 |
The Theological Context The True Presbyterian and an Atypical Prospectus | 90 |
The Ecclesial Context Border State Politics for a Nonpolitical Church | 133 |
A Proposed Historical and Moral Revision | 167 |
Robinson after the War | 186 |
A Stuart Robinson Reader In ScotoAmerican Ecclesiology | 191 |