A visitation of God : northern civilians interpret the Civil War / Sean A. Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Sean A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Religious aspects--Christianity.

History.

Laity.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

United States--Church history--19th century.

Church history.

Laity--United States--History--19th century.

War--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--19th century.

War.

Slavery and the church--United States.

Slavery and the church.

Physical Description:

xii, 347 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Contents:

"If God saves not our country it must be lost" : providence, secession, and the outbreak of war

"Until the great sin

has been removed" : God's chastening, the sacred union, and emancipation

"Try to live the life of a Christian" : the personal faith of women on the home front

"Christian patriotism" in flush : political preaching, antiwar dissent, and summer thanksgiving

"Exhorting you to be faithful

to God and to men" : fatherly counsel and the path to Christian manhood

"Discord sown among brethren" : the appropriation of scripture, politicized religion, and church division

"Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure" : civilian perspectives on death and eternity

"God be thanked the nation and humanity were saved" : retribution against traitors, the reelection of Lincoln, and the termination of war

"How mysterious are the ways of providence" : civilian attitudes toward the assassination of Lincoln.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-337) and index.

ISBN:

9780195395990

0195395999

OCLC:

574940472