The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee
Series: Library of religious biography
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780802874825
Description: xxi, 336 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm
Table of contents: title: "All our doings being ordered by thy governance"; title: "A goodly heritage" : Anglicanism in Lee's Virginia; title: "A house divided" : faith in the Lee household; title: "Who setteth the solitary in families" : Lee's extended clan; title: "To illuminate all bishops" : William Meade and his influence; title: "With the sign of the cross" : the young officer; title: "To have and to hold" : struggling to unite two as one; title: "Christ's faithful soldier and servant" : Lee, family, and church; title: "This our bounden duty and service" : from peace to war; title: "That, as we grow in age, we may grow in grace" : father and superintendent; title: "That he may continue thine forever" : Lee's confirmation; title: "Of the traditions of the church" : Lee the Episcopalian; title: "Whose never-failing providence ordereth all things" : Lee's central tenet; title: "Under the protection of thy good providence" : the Lee family; title: "Help thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed" : Lee and slavery; title: "Scatter thou the peoples that delight in war" : Lee's first great decision; title: "Who teacheth my hands to war" : the years of struggle; title: "In the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life" : Lee's second great decision; title: "To put away the leaven of malice" : pursuing reconciliation; title: "The mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me" : the uneasy peace; title: "Do now rest from their labors" : the earthly end; title: Non incautus futuri : a personal epilogue