The Use of the New Testament in the American Slave Controversy: A Case History in the Hermeneutical Tension between Biblical Criticism and Christian Moral Debate
The study of nineteenth-century U.S. biblical exegesis on the slavery question illumines a fundamental paradox in American religious culture. The relationship between the moral imperative of anti-slavery and the evolution of biblical criticism resulted in a major paradigm shift away from literalism....
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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2000
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Religion and American culture
Год: 2000, Том: 10, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 149-186 |
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| Итог: | The study of nineteenth-century U.S. biblical exegesis on the slavery question illumines a fundamental paradox in American religious culture. The relationship between the moral imperative of anti-slavery and the evolution of biblical criticism resulted in a major paradigm shift away from literalism. This moral imperative fostered an interpretive approach that found conscience to be a more reliable guide to Christian morality than biblical authority. Yet, the political imperative of proslavery nourished a biblicism that long antedated the proslavery argumentation and remains prevalent in American moral preaching. The nineteenth-century desire to resolve this paradox led to important innovations in American interpretations of the Bible. |
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| ISSN: | 1533-8568 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Religion and American culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/rac.2000.10.2.03a00020 |