Author: Thomas McAdory OwenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Dr. Basil Manly
Author: Thomas McAdory OwenChaplain to the Confederacy
Author: A. James FullerPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807125762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
As Jefferson Davis paraded through the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, to take the oath of office as the first president of the Confederate States of America, two men accompanied him in his open coach: Alexander Stephens -- the vice-president-elect -- and Basil Manly. A noted southern Baptist preacher, educator, and the most ardent secessionist of them all, Manly had been selected to serve as chaplain to the provisional Confederate Congress and opened the inaugural ceremonies with a prayer. For nearly thirty years, Manly had worked devotedly for the establishment of a southern nation, and in 1861, his sermons and public prayers before church and congress lent moral and religious legitimacy to the new Confederate government. In this, the first full biography of Manly, A. James Fuller analyzes the life and career of this working minister, illustrating the central role of religion in the formation of the Confederacy. Fuller argues that Manly brought together the various themes of the broader culture into his own conception of Christian gentility, including his actions as the official chaplain to the Confederate government. In Manly's eyes, the Confederacy was the incarnation of God's plan for the South. A planter, slaveholder, and staunch defender of the peculiar institution, he hoped to temper the brutality of bondage by promoting the Christian duties of masters as well as slaves. In practice he tried to reconcile the traditions of honor and evangelical virtue, the contradictions of white liberty and black slavery, the ideals of the individual and the need for community in matters both sacred and secular.
History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
Author: Thomas McAdory OwenPublisher:
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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Yea, Alabama! A Peek into the Past of One of the Most Storied Universities in the Nation
Author: David M. BattlesPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443879843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This Yea, Alabama historical series explores the narrative of the storied University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the United States, in a way not previously published. Years of research into primary documents, many only recently discovered or rediscovered, bring to the fore many new facts, new stories, new characters, new revelations, and new photos that offer the fullest picture of the University yet. This history of bringing higher education to what was just a few years earlier the ...
Rebuilding Zion
Author: Daniel W. StowellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Both the North and the South viewed the Civil War in Christian terms. Each side believed that its fight was just, that God favored its cause. Rebuilding Zion is the first study to explore simultaneously the reaction of southern white evangelicals, northern white evangelicals, and Christian freedpeople to Confederate defeat. As white southerners struggled to assure themselves that the collapse of the Confederacy was not an indication of God's stern judgment, white northerners and freedpeople were certain that it was. Author Daniel W. Stowell tells the story of the religious reconstruction of the South following the war, a bitter contest between southern and northern evangelicals, at the heart of which was the fate of the freedpeople's souls and the southern effort to maintain a sense of sectional identity. Central to the southern churches' vision of the Civil War was the idea that God had not abandoned the South; defeat was a Father's stern chastisement. Secession and slavery had not been sinful; rather, it was the radicalism of the northern denominations that threatened the purity of the Gospel. Northern evangelicals, armed with a vastly different vision of the meaning of the war and their call to Christian duty, entered the post-war South intending to save white southerner and ex-slave alike. The freedpeople, however, drew their own providential meaning from the war and its outcome. The goal for blacks in the postwar period was to establish churches for themselves separate from the control of their former masters. Stowell plots the conflicts that resulted from these competing visions of the religious reconstruction of the South. By demonstrating how the southern vision eventually came to predominate over, but not eradicate, the northern and freedpeople's visions for the religious life of the South, he shows how the southern churches became one of the principal bulwarks of the New South, a region marked by intense piety and intense racism throughout the twentieth century.
A History of Kentucky Baptists
Author: John H. SpencerPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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A History of the Western Baptist Theological Institute, Covington, Ky
Author: Kentucky Baptist Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Baptist Encyclopaedia
Author: William CathcartPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Virginia Baptist Ministers
Author: The Dental Cosmos
Author: J. D. WhitePublisher:
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Category : Dentistry
Languages : en
Pages : 1556
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