Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation

by T. Felder Dorn

While slavery and secession divided the Union during the American Civil War, they also severed the Northern and Southern dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In Challenges on the Emmaus Road, T. Felder Dorn focuses on the way Northern and Southern Episcopal bishops confronted and responded to the issues and events of their turbulent times.

Prior to the Civil War, Southern bishops were industrious in evangelizing among enslaved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611172497
• ISBN13: 9781611172492
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"