Author: Marion Morrison
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: Virginia F. Rainey
Publisher: Geneva Press
ISBN: 9780664502126
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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This first history of the Presbyterian Historical Society is a thorough, well-researched presentation.

Author: James Brown Scouller
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Author: John R. McKivigan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Reflecting a prodigious amount of research in primary and secondary sources, this book examines the efforts of American abolitionists to bring northern religious institutions to the forefront of the antislavery movement. John R. McKivigan employs both conventional and quantitative historical techniques to assess the positions adopted by various churches in the North during the growing conflict over slavery, and to analyze the stratagems adopted by American abolitionists during the 1840s and 1850s to persuade northern churches to condemn slavery and to endorse emancipation. Working for three decades to gain church support for their crusade, the abolitionists were the first to use many of the tactics of later generations of radicals and reformers who were also attempting to enlist conservative institutions in the struggle for social change. To correct what he regards to be significant misperceptions concerning church-oriented abolitionism, McKivigan concentrates on the effects of the abolitionists' frequent failures, the division of their movement, and the changes in their attitudes and tactics in dealing with the churches. By examining the pre-Civil War schisms in the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist denominations, he shows why northern religious bodies refused to embrace abolitionism even after the defection of most southern members. He concludes that despite significant antislavery action by a few small denominations, most American churches resisted committing themselves to abolitionist principles and programs before the Civil War. In a period when attention is again being focused on the role of religious bodies in influencing efforts to solve America's social problems, this book is especially timely.

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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Andrew Renwick
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385530040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Languages : en
Pages : 802

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Author: James Brown Scouller
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Languages : en
Pages : 788

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