“Without Shedding of Blood Is No Remission”

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
James P. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
The Bible

As everyone soon learned in this war, anything could happen in battle. Strategies went awry when shots rang out. Some Americans found comfort in providentialism, believing God controlled all events, and their lives were in God’s hands. Yet people wondered why God would allow such a bloody war to continue. The Civil War challenged Americans’ belief in providence. Maybe that was why Americans spoke so much about providence in the war—to reassure themselves that there was some order in the disorder. These concerns drove Americans to the Bible, because the Bible was the best guide to God’s providence. The late summer months of 1862 would see a turning point in the war, and the events during this time compelled some of the war’s deepest and most self-serving views of providence in scripture.

Enter Russia: Putin raises the stakes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Fundamental Structure ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
Military Victory

This chapter details Russia's decision to send its air force to directly support Assad in late summer 2015 — what motivated this dramatic mobilisation and what impact it had on the conflict. Russia's involvement suddenly raised the stakes and the consequences for the Syrian civil war. The rebel resurgence of spring 2015 provoked real fears of Assad's collapse in Moscow and Tehran, resulting in the Vienna Process along with ceasefire and peace talks. However, while Russia's intervention likely prevented any prospect of sudden regime collapse, it did not change the fundamental structure of the civil war and thus was unlikely to lead to a decisive regime military victory. What it did was create a better negotiating position for pro-Assad forces — which may have been Putin's intention all along.

scholarly journals Unknown Siberian Poems by Vasily Yan

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-227
Author(s):  
I. V. Prosvetov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Face ◽  
Poetic Style ◽  
At Home

The first publication of poems by the Soviet writer-historian, 1st degree Stalin Prize laureate Vasily Yan (Yanchevetsky), composed in 1920–1923, when he lived and worked in Siberia. Source – handwritten miscellany “Poems of Wanderings”, recently discovered in the Yanchevetskys’ family archive. The publication is accompanied by detailed biographical comments. In the civil war, V. Yanchevetsky took part on the side of the whites as one of the main propagandists of the Kolchak army – the head of the Informative Department of the Special Chancellery of the Supreme Commander’s Staff, editor of the front newspaper “Vperyod”. After the collapse of the white movement, V. Yanchevetsky had to hide his past, changing occupations and places of residence (Achinsk, Uyuk, Minusinsk). The Siberian po- etic cycle, created at this time, makes it possible to understand not only the mood of the author in the last years of the turning point in Russian history, but also literary searches, and the atmosphere of the time in general. The main themes are homeland, revolution, freedom, atheism, building a new life, preserving the personality in the face of political upheavals. Obviously, the influence on the poetic style of the author of such trends as symbolism and futurism, which he was interested in. In Omsk V. Yanchevetsky closely communicated with the writer, poet and avant-garde artist Anton Sorokin, attended his literary evenings at home. Probably, as a result, some of the Siberian poems were written in free verse, to which V. Yanchevetsky had never used before.

The Charges of Lutheranism Brought Against Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples (1520–1529)

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Individual Approach ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Jacques Lefevre D'etaples

Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples fell under the suspicious attention of the Sorbonne in 1514 when he was implicated in the defense of Johannes Reuchlin before that body. Under the assiduous promotion of its Syndic, Natalis Beda, suspicion was soon transformed into an overt attack on Lefèvre's orthodoxy. In 1520 a turning point was reached. Whereas, before, he had been attacked because of deviations arising chiefly out of his own individual approach to the Bible, in this new stage he was to be charged with Lutheranism. It is the purpose of this article to examine these later charges, the grounds alleged in justifying them, and how they came to be preferred. It will be necessary at the same time to examine, or rather reexamine, the words of Lefèvre which evoked them.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
James P. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Death Toll ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Texts

The Bible saturated the Civil War, and this book offers the most thorough analysis yet of how Americans enlisted scripture to fight the war. This introduction describes the major themes examined in the book, including Abraham Lincoln’s use of scripture (and Americans’ use of scripture to praise and to attack Lincoln), slavery and the Bible, patriotic views of scripture, and the Bible’s use to cope with the war’s death toll. The book concludes with an appendix on new data on the most-cited biblical texts in the war, ranked in three tables, labeled “The Confederate Bible,” “The Union Bible,” and “Biblical Citations in the American Civil War: Union and Confederacy.” Americans fought the Civil War with Bibles in hand, with both sides calling the war just and sacred. Supported by this groundbreaking new data, this book examines how Americans enlisted the Bible in the nation’s most bloody and, arguably, most biblically saturated war.

Thomas Fuller as Royalist Country Parson During the Interregnum

1979 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 301-314
Author(s):  
W. B. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Year ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

Although Thomas Fuller, the church historian, spent the first year of the civil war in London, where he articulated from the pulpit a political point of view consonant with that of the parliamentary peace party, there can be little doubt that his allegiance was with the king in that struggle. In the late summer of 1643 Fuller left London for the royalist capital at Oxford and before the end of the year entered the service of Lord Hopton as a chaplain in the royal army. During the latter stages of the civil war he resided in Exeter, where he served as chaplain to the infant princess Henrietta Anne, and where he enjoyed close relations with members of the court circle there. Fuller left the royalist community in Exeter only when the city itself surrendered in 1646, two months before the fall of Oxford. Because of these activities and because of a series of plainspoken books and pamphlets during the years of religious and political conflict, Fuller was widely known as an adherent of the royalist cause, albeit never as militant or as uncritical a partisan as many others in the king’s camp.

scholarly journals ‘Out of Whose Hive the Quakers Swarm’d’: Polemics and the Justification of Infant Baptism in the Early Restoration

Perichoresis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
Jonathan Warren
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Slippery Slope ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Infant Baptism ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Literal Sense ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
Early Restoration

Abstract The English Civil War brought an end to government censorship of nonconformist texts. The resulting exegetical and hermeneutical battles waged over baptism among paedobaptists and Baptists continued well into the Restoration period. A survey of the post-Restoration polemical literature reveals the following themes: 1) the polemical ‘slippery slope’ is a major feature of these tracts. Dissenting paedobaptists believed that Baptists would inevitably become Quakers, despising baptism altogether, and that the resulting social instability would allow the tyranny of Roman Catholicism to reemerge in England. Baptists for their part compared the tyranny of paedobaptist argumentation to the tyranny exercised by Roman Catholics. Anti- Quakeriana and Anti-Popery were both central ‘devil terms’ in this polemical warfare; 2) the exegesis of biblical texts underlying infant baptism revealed contrary understandings of how the bible fit together as a whole. Baptists tended to read Old and New Testaments disjunctively, whereas paedobaptists saw continuity absent explicit abrogation; 3) scholastic theology continued to undergird the arguments of all parties. Especially relevant to this discussion was debate over the proper ‘matter’ and ‘form’ of baptism. Here exegetical and hermeneutical disputes were also relevant. This study reveals that patterns of reading Scripture in each community were informed by traditions and practices, and that the search for the objective ‘literal’ sense of the text was bound to be unavailing.

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