"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God". Theodore Parker's proverbial fight for the ideal American society
Subtitle: Theodore Parker's proverbial fight for the ideal American society
Series: Supplement series of Proverbium Yearbook of intenational Proverb Scholarship, vol. 37
Publisher: University of Vermont
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780984645626
Copyright date: 2016
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction; title: Chapter 2 Parker's rhetoric and the role of proverbs in political oratory; title: Chapter 3 "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God". Theodore Parker's proverbial fight for the ideal American society; title: Chapter 3.1 Separating real Christianity from popular theology by casting out old doctrines; title: Chapter 3.2 Casting out old doctrines; title: Chapter 3.3 Arguing against slavery with real Christianity; title: Chapter 3.4 Arguing against slavery with democracy; title: Chapter 3.5 Money is power - the corruption of America; title: Chapter 3.6 Slavery's moral and political threat; title: Chapter 3.7 The wrong union - slavery becoming a Christian institution; title: Chapter 3.8 Don't wake the lion - civil disobedience against the fugitive slave law; title: Chapter 3.9 Downfall of the nation following moral decline; title: Chapter 3.10 Progress of humanity; title: Chapter 3.11 Different concepts of labor contributing to slavery; title: Chapter 4 Conclusion; title: Chapter 5 Bibliography; title: Chapter 6 Index of analyzed speeches, addresses,and occasional sermons; title: Chapter 7 Key word index of proverbs