20 MAR 2018 by ideonexus
How the Civil War Changed Southern Evangelicalism
There is still today a Southern Baptist Church. More than a century and a half after the Civil War, and decades after the Methodists and Presbyterians reunited with their Yankee neighbors, America’s most powerful evangelical denomination remains defined, right down to the name over the door, by an 1845 split over slavery.
Southern denominations faced enormous social and political pressure from plantation owners. Public expressions of dissent on the subject of slavery in the South were not ...Folksonomies: civil war evangelicalism
Folksonomies: civil war evangelicalism
24 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
Preachers and Prophets
Since I have had to pay college tuition for five daughters, I have chosen to play the role of preacher. I preach to all who will listen the gospel of manifest destiny. The destiny which I am preaching is not the expansion of a single nation or of a single species, but the spreading out of life in all its multifarious {134} forms from its confinement on the surface of our small planet to the freedom of a boundless universe. This unimaginably great and diverse universe, in which we occupy one...Folksonomies: colonization expansion
Folksonomies: colonization expansion
23 MAR 2012 by ideonexus
If You Can Outlaw Teaching Evolution in Public School
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers... Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers ...You can ban it everywhere and society will descend into darkness.
18 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
America Forced Christianity to Become More Tolerant
Under the pressure of the American environment, Christianity
grew more humanistic and temperate - more tolerant with
the struggle of the sects, more liberal with the growth of
optimism and rationalism, more experimental with the rise of
science, more individualistic with the advent of democracy.
Equally important, increasing numbers of colonists, as a legion of preachers loudly lamented, were turning secular in
curiosity and skeptical in attitude.America was a beach head of liberalism.