A Kingdom Not Of This World
Stuart Robinson was a prominent Presbyterian newspaper editor who took upon himself the dangerous task of distinguishing between the spiritual world and within a border state "city of conflict" during the Civil War. Presently, historians tend to depict religion during the American Civil War as domesticated under sectional nationalism -- where theologizing was directed at justifying the war in order to forge either a Northern or Southern Zion. Graham argues that such one-sided depictions do...
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Stuart Robinson was a prominent Presbyterian newspaper editor who took upon himself the dangerous task of distinguishing between the spiritual world and within a border state "city of conflict" during the Civil War. Presently, historians tend to depict religion during the American Civil War as domesticated under sectional nationalism -- where theologizing was directed at justifying the war in order to forge either a Northern or Southern Zion. Graham argues that such one-sided depictions do not sufficiently account for either the existence of a border state phenomenon during the Civil War or the kind of theologizing that was being propagated from out of the border states against the domestication of religion to sectional politics. In A Kingdom Not of This World Preston D. Graham, Jr. presents a case study of a rather sizeable movement among border state Presbyterians, with special attention given to their most celebrated and influential leader, the Dr. Rev. Stuart Robinson of Louisville, Kentucky. Given the significance of Robinson's theologizing relative to the American doctrine of the separation of church and state, several primary resources are included in a reader portion of the appendix.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Proposed Revision in Continuum ... Not All Were Given to Politics during the American Civil War11The Historical Context: Stuart Robinson's Confessional Formation Up to the Civil War112The Social Context: Notorious Border State Inflictions During the War41Excursus: The Embodiment of the Border State Martyr during the Civil War and the Case of Samuel B. Mcpheeters643The Theological Context: The True Presbyterian and an A-Typical Propectus904The Ecclesial Context: Border State Politics for a Nonpolitical Church133Conclusion: A Proposed Historical and Moral Revision Regarding A Kingdom NOT of This World167Epilogue: Stuart Robinson after the War186
