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10%OFFW. Jason Wallace - Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860 - 9780268044213 - V9780268044213
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Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860

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Description for Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860 Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HRCC7; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.

Although slaveholding southerners and Catholics in general had little in common, both groups found themselves relentlessly attacked in the northern evangelical press during the decades leading up to the Civil War. In Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860, W. Jason Wallace skillfully examines sermons, books, newspaper articles, and private correspondence of members of three antebellum groups—northern evangelicals, southern evangelicals, and Catholics—and argues that the divisions among them stemmed, at least in part, from disagreements over the role that religious convictions played in a free society.

Focusing on journals such as The Downfall of Babylon, Zion's Herald, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268044213
SKU
V9780268044213
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About W. Jason Wallace
W. Jason Wallace is assistant professor of history at Samford University.

Reviews for Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860
“Despite their obvious differences, antebellum American Catholics and pro-slavery Southern evangelicals had one feature in common: their powerful aversion to Northern evangelicals' transformation of the Christian faith into a crusading gospel of ‘progress.’ By exploring their respective critiques of Northern evangelical theology, with its overconfidence in individual and social perfectibility and its tendency to identify Christianity with American nationalism, W. ... Read more

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