Debating for God
eBook - ePub

Debating for God

Alexander Campbell's Challenge to Skepticism in Antebellum America

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Debating for God

Alexander Campbell's Challenge to Skepticism in Antebellum America

About this book

Debating for God demonstrates that Alexander Campbell was the foremost apologist of his era and, perhaps, the premier apologist that America has produced. Christians interested in "evidences" and Church historians will find this book fascinating.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. DEDICATION
  5. ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. PREFACE
  7. 1 INTRODUCTION: ALEXANDER CAMPBELL AND THE MASS RELIGIOUS CULTURE OF ANTEBELLUM AMERICA
  8. 2 ALEXANDER CAMPBELL AND NINETEEN-CENTURY CHRISTIAN RATIONALISM
  9. 3 DRAWING THE BATTLE LINES: CAMPBELL’S EARLY OPP OSITION TO SKEPTICISM
  10. 4 THE GREAT DEBATE: CAMPBELL, OWEN, AND THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY
  11. 5 A LETTER FROM A “PRIVATE STUDENT”: HUMPHREY MARSHALL’S RESPONSE TO THE CAMPBELL-OWEN DEBATE
  12. 6 “WHET YOUR SWORD ANEW”: AN OWENITE CHALLENGE FROM DOCTOR SAMUEL UNDERHILL
  13. 7 CHARLES CASSEDY: ALCOHOLIC, WRITER, AND INQUISITIVE SKEPTIC
  14. 8 COMBATING THE NEW SKEPTICS: UNIVERSALISM, UNITARIANISM, AND SPI RITUALISM
  15. 9 CONCLUSION: “DEFENDER OF THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS”
  16. APPENDIX A ROBERT OWEN’S “TWELVE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF HUMAN NATURE”
  17. APPENDIX B UNDERHILL’S “CAMPBELL REFUTED”
  18. ANSWER TO A. CAMPBELL’S LETTER
  19. NOTES
  20. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY