While God is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War SoldiersThey read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, but they faced each other in battle with rage in their hearts. The Civil War not only pitted brother against brother but also Christian against Christian, with soldiers from North and South alike devoutly believing that God was on their side. Steven E. Woodworth, a Civil War historian, presents the first detailed study of soldiers'' religious beliefs and how they influenced the course of that tragic conflict. He shows how Christian teaching and practice shaped the worldview of soldiers on both sides: how it motivated them for the struggle, how it influenced he way they fought, and how it shaped national life after the war ended. Through the diaries, letters, ad reminiscences of common soldiers, Woodworth illuminates religious belief from the home front to the battlefield, where thoughts of death and the afterlife were always close at hand. Woodworth reveals what these men thought about God and what they believed God thought about the war. |
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Smith himself was pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Springfield , Illinois , of
which Mary Todd Lincoln was a member and which her husband also frequently
attended . He argued vigorously in his famous debate and book , as elsewhere ...
Smith himself was pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Springfield , Illinois , of
which Mary Todd Lincoln was a member and which her husband also frequently
attended . He argued vigorously in his famous debate and book , as elsewhere ...
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As Lincoln explained it , this doctrine held that “ the human mind is impelled to
action , or held in rest by some power , over which the mind itself has no control .
” In Lincoln ' s case , this belief was the mutant offspring of the rigorous Calvinism
...
As Lincoln explained it , this doctrine held that “ the human mind is impelled to
action , or held in rest by some power , over which the mind itself has no control .
” In Lincoln ' s case , this belief was the mutant offspring of the rigorous Calvinism
...
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It was all very well , of course , to say that Lincoln ' s assassin had been
satanically inspired , but why had a sovereign God allowed it ? “ Why did a just
and merciful Providence permit this thing to happen ? . . . It seemed almost
impossible ...
It was all very well , of course , to say that Lincoln ' s assassin had been
satanically inspired , but why had a sovereign God allowed it ? “ Why did a just
and merciful Providence permit this thing to happen ? . . . It seemed almost
impossible ...
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In Such a Country as This | 3 |
The Actions of a Sovereign God | 27 |
In the Light of Gods Throne and the Presence of Jesus | 40 |
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| Título | While God is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers Modern war studies |
| Autores | Steven E. Woodworth, Steven E.. Woodworth |
| Editor | University Press of Kansas, 2001 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 19 Sep. 2008 |
| ISBN | 0700610995, 9780700610990 |
| Largo | 394 páginas |
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