LEADER 04847nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910449722103321 005 20211006010751.0 010 $a0-8147-4406-0 010 $a1-4294-1386-7 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814744062 035 $a(CKB)1000000000245286 035 $a(EBL)2081582 035 $a(OCoLC)913695202 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000155327 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149552 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155327 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10121346 035 $a(PQKB)10226262 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2081582 035 $a(DE-B1597)548242 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814744062 035 $a(OCoLC)191952800 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse86995 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2081582 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10137138 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3025576 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3025576 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000245286 100 $a20020621d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 11$a"Fire from the midst of you"$b[electronic resource] $ea religious life of John Brown /$fLouis A. DeCaro, Jr 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (365 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-1922-8 311 0 $a0-8147-1921-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-344) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. --$t1. ?And They Had No Comforter? --$t2. John Brown?s Heritage --$t3. Revival, Resistance, and Abolition in the Time of John Brown --$t4. The Early Years --$t5. Millennial Hopes, Abolitionist Awakenings --$t6. ?This Path of Life? --$t7. Citizen Brown?s Calvinist Community --$t8. Citizen Brown?s Calvinist Community --$t9. Of Vows and Tears --$t10. Belted Knights and Practical Shepherds --$t11. ?We Are Tossing Up and Down? --$t12. The Practical Shepherd in Springfield --$t13. A Cold and Snowy Canaan Land --$t14. ?So We Go? --$t15. ?All the Encouragement in My Power? --$t16. Ohio and Beyond --$t17. ?Kansas the Outpost? --$t18. Pottawatomie and the Fatherless --$t19. ?The Language of Providence? --$t20. ?This Spark of Fire? --$t21. ?My Public Murder? --$tEpilogue. A Saint?s Rest --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aJohn Brown is usually remembered as a terrorist whose unbridled hatred of slavery drove him to the ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859. Tried and executed for seizing the arsenal and attempting to spur a liberation movement among the slaves, Brown was the ultimate cause celebre for a country on the brink of civil war.?Fire from the Midst of You? situates Brown within the religious and social context of a nation steeped in racism, showing his roots in Puritan abolitionism. DeCaro explores Brown's unusual family heritage as well as his business and personal losses, retracing his path to the Southern gallows. In contrast to the popular image of Brown as a violent fanatic, DeCaro contextualizes Brown's actions, emphasizing the intensely religious nature of the antebellum U.S. in which he lived. He articulates the nature of Brown's radical faith and shows that, when viewed in the context of his times, he was not the religious fanatic that many have understood him to be. DeCaro calls Brown a ?Protestant saint??an imperfect believer seeking to realize his own perceived calling in divine providence.In line with the post-millennial theology of his day, Brown understood God as working through mankind and the church to renew and revive sinful humanity. He read the Bible not only as God's word, but as God's word to John Brown. DeCaro traces Brown's life and development to show how by forging faith as a radical weapon, Brown forced the entire nation to a point of crisis. ?Fire from the Midst of You? defies the standard narrative with a new reading of John Brown. Here is the man that the preeminent Black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois called a "mighty warning" and the one Malcolm X called ?a real white liberal.? 606 $aAbolitionists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aChristianity and politics$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAbolitionists 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aChristianity and politics$xHistory 676 $a973.7/116/092 676 $aB 700 $aDeCaro$b Louis A.$f1957-$01042730 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449722103321 996 $a"Fire from the midst of you"$92467179 997 $aUNINA