"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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... believed that slavery was not going to relent in the face of political compromise or moral outcries from abolitionists. When pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces clashed in the newly opened Kansas territory in 1856, Brown and his family ...
... believed that all of the Christian scriptures reflect the same God at work in the history of redemption is likewise indigestible to most people in a post-Christian society. All the more reason, then, for a religiously oriented portrayal ...
... believed that the scriptures continued to speak to life situations, radiating fresh truth and directives without obscuring its original and primary meaning. For him, God was speaking afresh on the enslavement of the African, and this ...
... believed he heard, and the forces that he may have sensed flowing around and through him. Brown's first biographers are often charged with having written panegyrics lined with appeals to God's purpose.7 The modern historian responds by ...
... believed that every slavemaster was an ogre, rapist, or sadist. For Brown, slavery was a violation of human rights and biblical justice, and every part of the monster was equally guilty, whether the head or the tail, the ruthless ...
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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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