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Debating for God [electronic resource]: Alexander Campbell's challenge to skepticism in antebellum America /

Cherok, Richard J.

Debating for God [electronic resource]: Alexander Campbell's challenge to skepticism in antebellum America / Alexander Campbell's challenge to skepticism in antebellum America Richard J. Cherok. - Abilene, Tex. : Abilene Christian University Press, c2008. - 1 online resource (230 pages)

Campbell refuted was originally published in Cincinnati as a pamphlet [1830?]. This transcription was reprinted from Underhill's newspaper, the Cleveland Liberalist.

With: Robert Owen's Twelve fundamental laws of human nature (Appendix A). With: Campbell refuted: being a correspondence between the Rev. Alex. Campbell, of VA. and Dr. Sam'l Underhill, of Ohio; on the subject of the debate held in Cincinnati between the celebrated Robert Owen, and Mr. Campbell, in April 1829 (Appendix B).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-224).

Introduction: Alexander Campbell and the mass religious culture of antebellum America -- Alexander Campbell and nineteenth-century Christian rationalism -- Drawing the battle lines: Campbell's early opposition to skepticism -- The great debate: Campbell, Owen, and the evidences of Christianity -- A letter from a "private student": Humphrey Marshall's response to the Campbell-Owen debate -- "Whet your sword anew": an Owenite challenge from Doctor Samuel Underhill -- Charles Cassedy: alcoholic, writer, and inquisitive skeptic -- Combating the new skeptics: universalism, unitarianism, and spiritualism -- Conclusion: "Defender of the faith once delivered to the saints" -- Appendix A. Owen's "Twelve fundamentals laws of human nature" -- Appendix B. Underhill's "Campbell refuted."

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Campbell, Alexander, 1788-1866.
Owen, Robert, 1771-1858.
Underhill, Samuel, 1795-1872.


Disciples of Christ--Controversial literature.


Skepticism--Controversial literature.


United States--Religion--19th century.


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