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A Consuming Fire
Eugene D. Genovese
其他書名
The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
出版University of Georgia Press, 2009
主題History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)History / United States / 19th CenturyReligion / Christianity / History
ISBN08203334419780820333441
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QymJcXWCypMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The fall of the Confederacy proved traumatic for a people who fought with the belief that God was on their side. Yet, as Eugene D. Genovese demonstrates in A Consuming Fire, Southern Christians continued to trust in the Lord's will. The churches had long defended "Southern rights" and insisted that slavery had divine sanction, but they also warned that God was testing His people, who must bring slavery up to biblical standards or face His wrath. For proslavery spokesmen, "Christian slavery" offered the South, indeed the world, the best hope for the vital work of preparation for the Kingdom, but they acknowledged that the slavery practiced in the South left much to be desired. The reform campaign of prominent ministers and church laymen featured demands to secure slave marriages and family life, to repeal the laws against slave literacy, and to punish cruel masters. A Consuming Fire analyzes the strengths, weaknesses, and ultimate failure of the struggle for reform and the nature and significance of Southern Christian orthodoxy and its vision of a proper social order, class structure, and race relations.