"Fire from the Midst of You": A Religious Life of John BrownNYU Press, 22. des. 2002 - 349 sider Reveals a complex new portrait of John Brown, radical abolitionist and leader of the 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry |
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... became associated with him, and “John Brown's Body” became the fighting anthem of the Union army. At the time, however, Abraham Lincoln described him as the kind of “enthusiast” who “broods over the oppression of a people till he ...
... became cultic, forcing theologians to underscore the difference between worshiping God and honoring saints. Later, Protestant theologians pointed out that according to the Bible a saint was merely a believer—one set apart from the world ...
... became the northern dilemma. Blacks could be shuffled around, pressed down, and scattered, but they would not disappear. Whites could not avoid the question.” “'everlasting negro' Yet southern slavery remained foremost in the eyes of ...
... became minister of the Congregational Church at West Simsbury, the teenage Owen became close to the clergyman, who took in the struggling youth and tutored him “a great deal.” While staying with Hallock, Owen came “under some ...
... became foster parents to an infant boy, Levi Blakeslee, the son of the Reverend Matthew Blakeslee of Hartland, Connecticut. The arrangement to care for baby Levi was supposed to be temporary, perhaps to help his widowed mother. But the ...
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Part III Providence and Principle | 81 |
Part IV In Times of Difficulty | 121 |
Part V Big Difficulties and Firm Footholds | 161 |
Part VI Enduring Hardness | 203 |
VII I Will Raise a Storm | 237 |
A Saints Rest | 279 |
Notes | 285 |
Selected Bibliography | 335 |
Index | 345 |
About the Author
| 349 |
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