Children of Wrath : New School Calvinism and Antebellum Reform /
In an exciting reinterpretation of the early nineteenth century, Leo Hirrel demonstrates the importance of religious ideas by exploring the relationship between religion and reform efforts during a crucial period in American history. The result is a work that moves the history of antebellum reform t...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
1998.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One: Religion
- 1. The Challenge to Orthodoxy
- 2. Theology at New Haven
- 3. Theology at Princeton and Oberlin
- 4. The Antebellum Congregational and Presbyterian Communities
- 5. The Role of Religion in the Republic
- Part Two: Reform
- 6. The Catholic Church and the Whore of Babylon
- 7. The Temperance Crusade
- 8. Chattel Slavery
- 9. Benevolence, the Social Order, and the Kingdom of God
- 10. The Closing Years of Antebellum Reform
- In Retrospect
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.