Adin Ballou's Hopedale Community and the Theology of Antislavery

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ID3702965
AuthorsLewis Perry (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume39
Issue3
Pages372-389
Publication date1970-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChurch History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3163471
OpenAlexW2137556371
LanguageEN
References cited22

There is now general agreement among historians that American abolitionism developed out of religious origins. Considerable attention has been paid to the sources of antislavery feelings in previous religious movements, particularly the Finneyite revivals in New York and the benevolence societies led by Lyman Beecher in Massachusetts. What has not been sufficiently explored is the possibility that antislavery, at least in the minds of some of its chief advocates, was a religious movement in its own right, with its own distinctive approach to theological problems.1 And yet to pursue this possibility is merely to take seriously a complaint made by the denominations themselves against uncomprising abolitionists: that is, that abolitionists had abandoned organized religion because of their own dogmatic suspicion of all attempts to subject divine impulses to earthly forms of organization

Abolitionism · Complaint · Epistemology · Feeling · Political science · Politics · Subject (documents) · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies

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