Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835–1860

In this trim, well-written work, W. Jason Wallace offers a theologically informed account of the important role evangelicals played in the antebellum conflicts over slavery and Catholic immigration. Like most other Americans, evangelicals split on sectional lines over slavery. Wallace contends that...

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Main Author: Quinn, John F. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2011
In: A journal of church and state
Year: 2011, Volume: 53, Issue: 3, Pages: 504-506
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Summary:In this trim, well-written work, W. Jason Wallace offers a theologically informed account of the important role evangelicals played in the antebellum conflicts over slavery and Catholic immigration. Like most other Americans, evangelicals split on sectional lines over slavery. Wallace contends that there was a sectional divide in regards to Catholicism as well, with northern evangelicals seeing Catholicism and slavery as twin threats to the nation. Southern evangelicals were much more favorably disposed to Catholics and often found themselves agreeing more with the Catholics than with their northern brethren., Wallace notes that Lyman Beecher and many other influential New England evangelicals had moved away from strict Calvinist doctrines by the 1820s and 1830s.
ISSN:2040-4867
Contains:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csr073