RT Article
T1 Biblical Interpretation, Race, and Union Presbyterian Seminary
JF Interpretation
VO 75
IS 1
SP 44
OP 55
A1 Sweetser, William B.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1747149497
AB Chattel slavery in the United States was never foreordained. The deliberate misinterpretation of Scripture predisposed people to accept what the Bible condemned. The development of the Biblical Theology movement, by emphasizing the plain sense of Scripture over cultural assumptions and discredited scientific theories, led Union Presbyterian Seminary to repudiate the immorality that was slavery and segregation.
K1 Benjamin Mosby Smith
K1 Robert Lewis Dabney
K1 Union Presbyterian Seminary
K1 Biblical Theology
K1 Ante-bellum Biblical Interpretation
K1 American Slavery
DO 10.1177/0020964320961671