Christian History Magazine—Issue 33: Christianity & the Civil War
Overview
What did the Civil War mean to the American nation? To God? What were the effects of America’s bloodiest war on the life and growth of the Christian Church? How involved was the Church with abolitionist movements and the Underground Railroad? How widely circulated was the Christian apologetic for slavery? What were the soldiers’ responses to the Gospel message and revival? Did these responses vary as the war raged on? Find the answers to these questions and more in this informative and insightful issue of Christian History and Biography.
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Top Highlights
“‘Many of them could state the cardinal doctrines of the gospel in the language of song.’ It was in the spirituals, above all, that the characters, themes, and lessons of the Bible became dramatically real and took on special meaning for the slaves.” (source)
“Unable to read the Bible for themselves and skeptical of their masters’ interpretation of it, most slaves learned the message of the Christian gospel and translated it into songs in terms of their own experience.” (source)
“Slaves forbidden by masters to attend church or, in some cases, even to pray, risked floggings to attend secret gatherings to worship God.” (source)
“Regular Sunday worship in the local church was paralleled by illicit, or at least informal, prayer meetings on weeknights in the slave cabins. Preachers licensed by the church and hired by the master were supplemented by slave preachers licensed only by the spirit.” (source)
“At the center of the evangelical Protestant tradition, the tradition which slaves increasingly made their own, stood the experience of conversion.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 33: Christianity & the Civil War
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 1992
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church history › United States--Civil War, 1861-1865; Civil war › Christianity
- Resource ID: LLS:12.30.33
- Resource Type: Magazine
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