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    Title
    The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Mark A. Noll
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 428
    Width: 178 mm
    Height: 254 mm
    Thickness: 21 mm
    Weight: 708 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Professional and scholarly
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780807866108
    ISBN 10: 0807866105
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: REL000000
    BISAC category code: HIS036050
    Dewey: 277.3081
    BIC subject category: HBLL
    BIC geographical qualifier: 1KBB
    BIC time period qualifier: 3JH
    Dewey: 973.7
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T5.4
    Edition
    Large type / large print
    Edition statement
    Large type edition
    Publisher
    The University of North Carolina Press
    Imprint name
    The University of North Carolina Press
    Publication date
    01 February 2010
    Publication City/Country
    Chapel Hill/US
    Flap copy
    Prominent theologian Noll considers the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, as both Northerners and Southerners generally agreed on the authority of the Bible but disagreed about what it taught about slavery. He also surveys the observations of foreign Protestants and Catholics, who saw clearly that regardless of how much voluntary reliance on scriptural authority had contributed to the construction of national civilization, if there were no higher religious authority than the personal interpretation of scripture, public deadlock over conflicting interpretations would amount to a full-blown theological crisis.
    Review quote
    "Bound to spark major revisionist studies and challenge young scholars to explore its provocative and convincing theses. . . . [A] masterful analysis of Civil War-era religion." -"American Historical Review"
    Main description
    Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all sides agreed that the Bible was authoritative, their interpretations of slavery in Scripture led to a full-blown theological crisis.