Miscellaneous Publications by Robert J. Breckinridge
Overview
Robert J. Breckinridge: Presbyterian minister, politician, author, abolitionist, and champion of education. Known as the "father of the Kentucky public school system" for increasing the number of children in school ten-fold during his tenure as superintendent of public education, and for his staunch support for the Union and President Lincoln during the Civil War (unpopular in his native Kentucky), Breckinridge was a man who blazed his own trail despite the difficult obstacles that stood in his way.
Miscellaneous Publications contains the following ten works by Robert J. Breckinridge:
- Immorality of the Traffic, Manufacture, and Use of Ardent Spirits as a Drink
- Calling on the Church of Christ and the Rule of Her Faith: Two Discourses
- Second Defense
- The Civil War: Its Nature and End
- The Third Defense
- The Christian Pastor
- Denominational Education
- Fidelity in Our Lot
- Our Country
- The Great Deliverance and the New Career
Miscellaneous Publications contains Breckinridge's rich prose and fiery passion. With the Logos Bible Software edition all Scripture passages in these Miscellaneous Publications are tagged and appear on mouse-over. This makes these resources more powerful and easier to access than ever before for scholarly work or personal Bible study. With the advanced search features of Logos Bible Software, you can perform powerful searches by topic or Scripture reference—finding, for example, every mention of "deliverance" or "fidelity."
Praise for the Print Edition
Breckinridge has presented the ancient truths of salvation with a freshness, an unction, and a power which vindicate to them the real character of a Gospel.
—James Henry Thornwell
Product Details
- Title: Miscellaneous Publications by Robert J. Breckinridge
- Author: Robert J. Breckinridge
- Publisher: Sands and Neilson
- Publication Date: 1834
- Pages: 481
Partially includedAbout Robert J. Breckinridge
Robert J. Breckinridge, (1800–1871) grandfather of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, was a politician, Presbyterian minister, author, abolitionist, and champion of education. Ordained in 1832, Breckinridge pastored the Second Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Maryland before accepting the position of President of Jefferson College in 1845. Soon after, Breckinridge would return to his native Kentucky as a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lexington and as Superintendent of Public Education. Under his guidance, attendance increased ten-fold. As the civil war unfolded, Breckinridge was an outspoken abolitionist and supporter of the Union, a position not popular in his home state of Kentucky.