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Redeeming America
Curtis D. Johnson
其他書名
Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War
出版I.R. Dee, 1993
主題History / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)Religion / GeneralReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / HistoryReligion / Christianity / Protestant
ISBN15666303129781566630313
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UrnYAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In the absence of a state-supported religion, the years 1820-60 saw tremendous expansion and influence of the Evangelicals in the United States. Johnson discusses the many ways in which these Evangelical sects attempted to shape American society. Generally drawn along socioeconomic lines, there were three major groups: Formalists (Congregationalists, Presbyterians), Antiformalists (Methodists, Baptists), and the African American groupings. Johnson discusses in serviceable but tedious prose how these groups varied in their beliefs on biblical authority, rebirth, the Second Coming, and Perfectionism. Slavery also divided Southern from Northern Evangelicals. By the time of the Civil War, changes in American society had altered the character and composition of the Evangelicals, and they were never again as powerful.