A review by violinknitter
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark A. Noll

4.0

I was fascinated by most of this book, especially since many of the questions of biblical interpretation that surfaced around the issue of slavery are surfacing again (or similar issues are surfacing) around questions of LGBTQ participation in church & women in leadership. Noll doesn't discuss that at all... he's purely focused on the theological debates surrounding American slavery. Nevertheless, one of the main reasons I appreciated this book was b/c of his elucidation of the ways various proponents of and opponents to slavery used the Bible to defend their position.