Christian Interpretations of the Civil War

The Civil War more than any other episode in American history struck into the lives of all the families of the land, demanding that everybody take sides. Partisanship focused upon many facets and features of the conflicting causes, but the order of the event allowed no bipartisanship. Only a handful...

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Main Author: Clebsch, William A. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [1961]
In: Church history
Year: 1961, Volume: 30, Pages: 212-222
Further subjects:B Theology
B USA / United States of America
B Jahrhundert, 19
B church-state relations
B Civil war
B War
B Civil War
B Verhältnis Staat-Kirche
B USA / United States of America / Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
B century, 19th
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Summary:The Civil War more than any other episode in American history struck into the lives of all the families of the land, demanding that everybody take sides. Partisanship focused upon many facets and features of the conflicting causes, but the order of the event allowed no bipartisanship. Only a handful of anticipative revisionists, who earnestly cried that the whole affair, even once begun, was needless and somehow avoidable, found ground for nonpartisanship. Families branched across Mason and Dixon's line split and sided in spite of torn loyalties and wistful recollections of unity. Had slaves foreseen, as freedmen knew, that emancipation's price was personal degradation, they might have borne mixed feelings about the issue, but even their ambivalences purchased no point of impartiality.
ISSN:0009-6407
Contains:Enthalten in: Church history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3161973