Black & Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America - Softcover

Wilson, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159128032X ISBN 13: 9781591280323

Publisher: Canon Press, 2005

Synopsis

Even though America is fiercely divided between the left and the right and protests are becoming increasingly violent, both sides of the political aisle remain committed to secularism and increasingly to looser standards of sexual propriety.

If we want to understand contemporary American culture wars, we must first come to grips with the culture wars of the nineteenth century. In this book, Douglas Wilson explains how our nation's failure to remove slavery in a biblical fashion has led us to many of the quagmires we find ourselves in and until we grapple with issues like racism, hate speech, and the biblical position on slavery, we will continue to repeat the same mistakes our ancestors did.

This collection of essays lays out the answers from a view unafraid of historic, biblical orthodoxy, as well as addressing some of the controversies surrounding the previous edition of the book.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas Wilson is pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho and editor of Credenda/Agenda magazine. He is a contributor to Back to Basics: Rediscovering the Richness of the Reformed Faith (P&R) and author of Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning (Crossway), Reforming Marriage (Canon), and Future Men (Canon).

Review:

The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel. ---Eugene Genovese, Ph.D. Columbia University, author of Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made

About this edition

• Publisher: Canon Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 159128032X
• ISBN 13: 9781591280323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138