An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Views of Slavery
Author : Albert Barnes
Publisher : Scholarly Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Albert Barnes
Publisher : Scholarly Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Religion
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Author : Albert Barnes
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Slavery
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Author : Mark A. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022627537X
When Pope Francis recently answered “Who am I to judge?” when asked about homosexuality, he ushered in a new era for the Catholic church. A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a pope to express tolerance for homosexuality. Yet shifts of this kind are actually common in the history of Christian groups. Within the United States, Christian leaders have regularly revised their teachings to match the beliefs and opinions gaining support among their members and larger society. Mark A. Smith provocatively argues that religion is not nearly the unchanging conservative influence in American politics that we have come to think it is. In fact, in the long run, religion is best understood as responding to changing political and cultural values rather than shaping them. Smith makes his case by charting five contentious issues in America’s history: slavery, divorce, homosexuality, abortion, and women’s rights. For each, he shows how the political views of even the most conservative Christians evolved in the same direction as the rest of society—perhaps not as swiftly, but always on the same arc. During periods of cultural transition, Christian leaders do resist prevailing values and behaviors, but those same leaders inevitably acquiesce—often by reinterpreting the Bible—if their positions become no longer tenable. Secular ideas and influences thereby shape the ways Christians read and interpret their scriptures. So powerful are the cultural and societal norms surrounding us that Christians in America today hold more in common morally and politically with their atheist neighbors than with the Christians of earlier centuries. In fact, the strongest predictors of people’s moral beliefs are not their religious commitments or lack thereof but rather when and where they were born. A thoroughly researched and ultimately hopeful book on the prospects for political harmony, Secular Faith demonstrates how, over the long run, boundaries of secular and religious cultures converge.
Author : Neil H. Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608998932
At the center of Christianity is Jesus of Nazareth--whose maleness is used by many to justify the subordination of women and to emphasize that men, rather than women, better represent Jesus. This raises a number of questions that are the subject of this book. What is the significance of Jesus' maleness? Does it reveal the character of God? Is it foundational for the gospel? Is Jesus' maleness associated with an ongoing created order of male priority? Our answers will affect Christianity's task of love, justice, and reconciliation in a world that is characterized by the global marginalization, oppression, and abuse of women.
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Criticism
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Author : Edward Royall Tyler
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 1846
Category : United States
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Author : Jack R. Davidson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532600879
Eli Washington Caruthers's unpublished manuscript, American Slavery and the Immediate Duty of Southern Slaveholders, is the arresting and authentic alternative to the nineteenth-century hermeneutics that supported slavery. On the basis of Exodus 10.3--"Let my people go that they may serve me"--Caruthers argued that God was acting in history against all slavery. Unlike arguments guided largely by the New Testament, Caruthers believed that the Exodus text was a privileged passage to which all thinking on slavery must conform. As the most extensive development of the Exodus text within the field of antislavery literature, Caruthers's manuscript is an invaluable primary source. It is especially relevant to historians' current appraisal of the biblical sanction for slavery in nineteenth-century America because it does not correspond to characterizations of antislavery literature as biblically weak. To the contrary, an analysis of Caruthers's manuscript reveals a thoroughly reasoned biblical argument unlike any other produced during the nineteenth century against the hermeneutics supporting slavery.
Author : Eran Shalev
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300186924
DIV A wide-ranging exploration of early Americans’ use of the Old Testament for political purposes /div
Author : Leo Hirrel
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0813193672
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 to a higher level of sophistication. Hirrel focuses upon New School Congregationalists and Presbyterians who served at the forefront of reform efforts and provided critical leadership to anti-Catholic, temperance, antislavery, and missionary movements. Their religion was an attempt to reconcile traditional Calvinist language with the prevalent intellectual trends of the time. New School theologians preserved Calvinist language about depravity, but they incorporated an assertion of nominal human ability to overcome sin and a belief in the fixed, immutable nature of truth. Describing both the origins of New School Calvinism and the specific reform activities that grew out of these beliefs, Hirrel provides a fresh perspective on the historical background of religious controversies.
Author : E. Brooks Holifield
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300129734
Since its first publication in 1859, few works of political philosophy have provoked such continuous controversy as John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, a passionate argument on behalf of freedom of self-expression. This classic work is now available in this volume which also includes essays by scholars in a range of fields. The text begins with a biographical essay by David Bromwich and an interpretative essay by George Kateb. Then Jean Bethke Elshtain, Owen Fiss, Judge Richard A. Posner and Jeremy Waldron present commentaries on the pertinence of Mill's thinking to early 21st century debates. They discuss, for example, the uses of authority and tradition, the shifting legal boundaries of free speech and free action, the relation of personal liberty to market individualism, and the tension between the right to live as one pleases and the right to criticize anyone's way of life.