The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War.By Randall Miller, Charles Reagan Wilson, Harry S. Stout, eds.
(Oxford University Press, 1998)
Category: Other Recommendations
Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.
Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith by G. K. Chesterton.
On its 100th anniversary, this book is just as helpful and provocative as ever.
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark A. Noll.
A historical discussion of the role scriptural interpretation and church authority structures played in the arguments over slavery and the Civil War.
