Title: "God ordained this war" : sermons on the sectional crisis, 1830-1865 /
Authors: Chesebrough, David B., 1932-; Chesebrough, David B., 1932-2004.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Slavery and the church United States.; Sermons, American.; Secession.; Sectionalism (United States); Secession Southern States.; Sectionalism (U.S.); United States History Religious aspects.
Contents: Pt. 1. Northern sermons: Slavery: Doubtful actions are sinful / Charles G. Finney. The function of conscience / Theodore Parker -- Sectionalism: Against a compromise of principle / Henry Ward Beecher -- War: Our national reverses / James D. Liggett. Popular government by divine right / Horace Bushnell -- Assigning guilt and punishment: Sermon / Robert Lowry. Pt. 2. Southern sermons: Slavery: The religious instruction of the Negroes / Charles Colcock Jones. The rights and duties of masters / James H. Thornwell -- Sectionalism and secession: National responsibility before God / Benjamin Morgan Palmer -- War: God's providence in war / J.W. Tucker -- The lost cause: Ezra's dilemma / Stephen Elliott. Funeral discourse / John Paris. Pt. 3. Black sermons, south and north : Black preachers: The progress of the antislavery cause / Theodore S. Wright.