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Christianity and the Civil War: Did You Know?
Little-known or remarkable facts about Christianity during the American Civil War
Christianity and the Civil War: From the Editor - What PBS Didn't Tell You
KEVIN A. MILLER
The Puzzling Faith of Abraham Lincoln
Where was God in this brutal national war? An unbaptized non-churchgoer came up with a profound answer.
Mark A. Noll
Lincoln's Life - And Key Religious Statements
Dr. Mark A. Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton (Illinois) College and a member of the editorial advisory board of CHRISTIAN HISTORY. His most recent book is A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (Eerdmans, 1992).
Headed for Heaven or Hell?
How would Lincoln answer? His political opponent, a famous frontier preacher, wanted to know.
Christianity and the Civil War: A Gallery of Firebrands and Visionaries
Leading people in religion and politics during the Civil War era
Mark Galli is associate editor of Leadership Journal and a consulting editor for Christian History.
Christianity and the Civil War: A Gallery of Other Key Figures
The Abolitionists
Despised and often attacked, they courageously carried the slaves' cause for thirty years. Why have these inescapably Christian men and women been forgotten?
Tim Stafford is senior writer for Christianity Today and author of numerous books including, with Dave Dravecky, Comeback (Zondervan, 1991). He is writing a historical novel on the abolitionist movement.
American Slavery: How Bad Was It?
Selections from the most powerful anti-slavery pamphlet ever written
Why Christians Should Support Slavery
Key reasons advanced by southern church leaders
THE EDITORS
Broken Churches, Broken Nation
When slavery divided America's churches, what could hold the nation together?
Revivals in the Camp
At first, most Civil War soldiers cared little for religion. But as the bloody war dragged on, hundreds of thousands converted to Christ.
Dr. Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. teaches church history in the School for Ministries of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. He is author of A Shield and Hiding Place: The Religious Life of the Civil War Armies (Mercer University Press, 1987).
Reports of the Revival
The Confederate camp became "a school of Christ."
Dr. Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. teaches church history in the School for Ministries of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. He is author of A Shield and Hiding Place: The Religious Life of the Civil War Armies (Mercer University Press, 1987).
Behind Enemy Lines
While carrying tracts to Union troops, one preacher was seized by Confederates as a spy.
Christianity and the Civil War: Christian History Timeline
Dr. Keith J. Hardman is chair of the department of philosophy and religion at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and the author of Charles Grandison Finney, 1792–1875: Revivalist and Reformer (Syracuse, 1987)
Christianity and the Civil War: A Gallery of Fighters of Faith
These Christian generals helped wage the Civil War, and their faith affected how they did it.
Dr. Jeffery Warren Scott is pastor of Broadman Baptist Church in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Mary Ann Jeffreys is editorial coordinator of Christian History.
What About Ulysses S. Grant?
He was the Union's leading general and twice president of the United States. But he was no saint.
Preaching the Holy War
What did Protestant ministers say about the raging national battle?
Dr. James H. Moorhead is Mary McIntosh Bridge Professor of American Church History at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and author of American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War, 1860–1869 (Yale, 1978).
God Is On Our Side
Selections from sermons during the Civil War era. From God Ordained This War: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830–1865 edited by David B. Chesebrough (University of South Carolina press, 1991). Used by permission.
The Secret Religion of the Slaves
They often risked floggings to worship God.
Dr. Albert J. Raboteau is Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion and chairman of the religion department at Princeton University. He is author of Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South (Oxford, 1978), from which this article is excerpted by permission.
Christianity and the Civil War: Recommended Resources
Christian History asked Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson to recommend books that creatively explore Christianity during the Civil War era. Dr. Wilson is professor of history and Southern studies at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He is also author of Baptism in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920 (Georgia, 1980).
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