Black & Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in AmericaCanon Press & Book Service, 2005 - 122 páginas If we want to understand culture wars on the contemporary American scene, we must first come to grips with the American culture wars of the nineteenth century. That our nation did not remove slavery in a biblical way helps explain many of our contemporary social evils. But who is qualified to talk about such things? What is a biblical view of racism? Why do the biblical answers to such questions so infuriate the radical left and the radical right? This collection of essays lays out some of the answers from a view unashamed of historic biblical absolutism. "The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel." - Eugene Genovese, Ph.D., Columbia University, author of nine books including Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made, winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History, teaching positions at Rutgers, University of Rochester, Yale, Cambridge, and formerly a distinguished scholar in residence for the University Center, Georgia. |
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Regenerate but Unreconstructed John Crowe Ransom a Bit Further Downstream | 13 |
Scripture and Slavery What the Bible Actually Teaches | 37 |
Plowing the Same Ground Hoping to Get a Crop This Time | 61 |
Dabney in Full | 79 |
Fragments from the Controversy | 95 |
Epilogue | 117 |
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