From the pen of historian Mark Noll comes this small but challenging study of the church throughout the multifaceted crises of the Civil War. Christians in America were split over many issues, including those of slavery as an institution in general, American slavery uniquely, and African-American slavery most intensely — as well as over the role of tradition and authority within Christendom.
This one is required my intellectual hip-boots, but is well worth the effort. I will never see American church history or contemporary Christianity the same again.“
