My Lists
Featured Lists
"Fire from the midst of you"
a religious life of John Brown
By Louis A., Jr Decaro & DeCaro, Louis A.
- ISBN
- 978-0-81471-921-3
- Publisher
- New York : New York University Press, c2002.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2002
When abolitionist martyr John Brown led an armed raid on Harper's Ferry, VA, in October 1859, he helped set the stage for the American Civil War. Yet as pastor and educator DeCaro points out, Brown himself felt that all life was precious, claiming that he would fight no war "unless it was a war of liberty." DeCaro (Malcolm and the Cross) sets out to establish Brown's legacy as one grounded in an alternative evangelical ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
