Author: Charles Carroll EverettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A Sermon in Commemoration of the Death of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Charles Carroll EverettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A Sermon in Commemoration of the Death of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Charles Carroll EverettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Sermon Preached on the Sunday After the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Charles Carroll EverettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A Sermon in Commemoration of the Death of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Charles Carroll EverettPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359339164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
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A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood
Author: James P. ByrdPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190902795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
"In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said both North and South 'read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.' Lincoln quoted several biblical texts in this address--which, according to Frederick Douglass, 'sounded more like a sermon than a state paper.' The Bible, as Lincoln's famous speech illustrated, saturated the Civil War. In this book, James Byrd offers the most thorough analysis yet of how Americans enlisted scripture to fight the Civil War. As Byrd reveals in this insightful narrative, no book was more important to the Civil War than the Bible. From Massachusetts to Mississippi and beyond, the Bible was the nation's most read and most respected book. It brought to mind sacred history and sacrifice. It presented a drama of salvation and damnation, of providence and judgement. It was also a book of war. Americans cited the Bible in addressing many wartime issues, including slavery, secession, patriotism, federal versus state authority, white supremacy, and violence. In scripture, both Union and Confederate soldiers found inspiration for dying and killing like never before in the nation's history. With approximately 750,000 fatalities, the Civil War was the deadliest of the nation's wars. Americans fought the Civil War with Bibles in hand, with both sides calling the war just and sacred. This is a book about how Americans enlisted the Bible in the nation's most bloody, and arguably most biblically-saturated war"--
A Sermon in Commemoration of the Death of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780371258347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Special Bulletin ...
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
List of Books and Magazine Articles on Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States ...
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture
Author: Lucy FrankPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351150227
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological boundaries implicit in nineteenth-century America's obsession with death, while also seeking to give a voice to the strategies by which these boundaries were interrogated and displaced. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, imaginative constructions and re-constructions of social practice with regard to loss and memorialisation, and literary re-conceptualisations of death forced by personal and national trauma.
A Visitation of God
Author: Sean A. ScottPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195395999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
When Abraham Lincoln expressed gratitude for the northern churches in the spring of 1864, it had nothing to do with his appreciation of doctrine, liturgy, or Christian fellowship. Collectively, the churches earned the president's admiration with rabid patriotism and support for the war. Ministers publicly proclaimed the righteousness of the Union, condemned slavery, and asserted that God favored the federal army. Yet all of this would have amounted to nothing more than empty bravado without the support of the men and women sitting in the pews. This outstanding book examines the Civil War from the perspective of the northern laity, those religious civilians whose personal faith influenced their views on politics and slavery, helped them cope with physical separation and death engendered by the war, and ultimately enabled them to discern the hand of God in the struggle to preserve the national Union.From Lincoln's election to his assassination, the book weaves together political, military, social, and intellectual history into a religious narrative of the Civil War on the northern home front. Packed with compelling human interest stories, this account draws on letters, diaries, newspapers and church records along with published sources to conclusively demonstrate that many devout civilians regarded the Civil War as a contest imbued with religious meaning. In the process of giving their loyal support to the government as individual citizens, religious Northerners politicized the church as a collective institution and used it to uphold the Union so the purified nation could promote Christianity around the world. Christian patriotism helped win the war, but the politicization of religion did not lead to the redemption of the state.