RT Book
T1 A visitation of God: northern civilians interpret the Civil War
A1 Scott, Sean A.
LA English
PP Oxford u.a.
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/622917048
NO Formerly CIP Uk. - "Confined geographically to: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa". (p. 5). - Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-337) and index. - "If God saves not our country it must be lost" : providence, secession, and the outbreak of war -- "Until the great sin-- has been removed" : God's chastening, the sacred union, and emancipation -- "Try to live the life of a Christian" : the personal faith of women on the home front -- "Christian patriotism" in flush : political preaching, antiwar dissent, and summer thanksgiving -- "Exhorting you to be faithful-- to God and to men" : fatherly counsel and the path to Christian manhood -- "Discord sown among brethren" : the appropriation of scripture, politicized religion, and church division -- "Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure" : civilian perspectives on death and eternity -- "God be thanked the nation and humanity were saved" : retribution against traitors, the reelection of Lincoln, and the termination of war -- "How mysterious are the ways of providence" : civilian attitudes toward the assassination of Lincoln
CN E635
SN 978-0-19-539599-0
SN 0-19-539599-9
K1 Laity : Northwest, Old : History : 19th century
K1 War : Religious aspects : Christianity : History : 19th century
K1 Slavery and the church : Northwest, Old
K1 Northwest, Old : History : Civil War, 1861-1865 : Religious aspects
K1 Northwest, Old : History : Civil War, 1861-1865 : Social aspects
K1 Northwest, Old : Church history : 19th century