Publisher: Mercer University Press ISBN: 0865547572 Item #: 5852

Binding: Hardcover Chapters: Page Count: 296

"By Preston D Graham. Stuart Robinson was a prominent Presbyterian newspaper editor who took upon himself the dangerous task of distinguishing betweenthe spiritual world and the civil war within a border state ""city of conflict"" during the Civil War.Presently, historians tend to depict religion during the American Civil War as domesticated under sectional nationalism--where theologizing was directed at justifying the war in order to forge eithera northern or southern Zion. Graham argues that such one-sided depictions do not sufficiently account for either the existence of a border state phenomenon during the civil war or the kind of theologizing that was being propagated from out of the border states against the domestication of religionto sectional politics. In this book, the author presents a case study of a rather sizeable movementamong border state Presbyterians, with special attention given to their most celebrated and influential leader, the Dr. Rev. Stuart Robinson of Louisville, Kentucky. Given the significance of Robinson's theologizing relative to the American doctrineof the spearation of church and state, several primary resources are included in a reader portion ofthe appendix."

Publication Date: 2002