"Fire from the Midst of You": A Religious Life of John BrownNYU Press, 22 dec. 2002 - 349 sidor Reveals a complex new portrait of John Brown, radical abolitionist and leader of the 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry |
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... God The Early Years: Autobiography and History Millennial Hopes, Abolitionist Awakenings “This Path of Life”: From Ohio to Pennsylvania Providence and Principle Citizen Brown's Calvinist Community The Pursuit of Success and the ...
... God, they were also biblical egalitarians—radical dissenters from the racialist beliefs of many white Christians. The Browns applied the biblical doctrine of humanity the image of God to the frontier as well as the slave market, and ...
... God's word, he read the Bible as God's word to John Brown. He believed that the scriptures continued to speak to life situations, radiating fresh truth and directives without obscuring its original and primary meaning. For him, God was ...
... God's purpose.7 The modern historian responds by saying that we are to strive for a neutral approach to the fiery ... God and honoring saints. Later, Protestant theologians pointed out that according to the Bible a saint was merely a ...
... God's grace and mercy. By reconfiguring our notion of sainthood we find a fitting category for him. To study him as a Protestant saint we must weigh him in the balance of history, evaluating and criticizing him accordingly. Yet at the ...
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Part II A Good Cause and a Sovereign God | 43 |
Part III Providence and Principle | 81 |
Part IV In Times of Difficulty | 121 |
Part V Big Difficulties and Firm Footholds | 161 |
Part VI Enduring Hardness | 203 |
VII I Will Raise a Storm | 237 |
A Saints Rest | 279 |
Notes | 285 |
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About the Author
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