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Frederick Jackson Turner, Frontier, and Protestantism
The subjugation of the frontier seems to have been done through institutions that were at best ambivalent about democracy, liberalism, and individualism.
Observations on a Sixth-Century Passio: Sex and Slavery
A martyrdom story reveals some interesting theological and moral assumptions.
Shakespeare Notebook 2023: “Henry V”
King Henry's prayer before the Battle of Agincourt has a distinctly Protestant flavor.
“And Dyes the Green of Weeping Earth”: Georg Fabricius, Hymns 1.5
Georg Fabricius on Christ's agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Philander Chase’s “Plea for the West”: Episcopalians and the Early Republic Frontier
In 1835 Lyman Beecher wrote his Plea for the West, urging Protestants to settle and proselytize the American West lest Roman Catholics convert the…
