Book details: APOSTLES OF DISCORD : A STUDY OF ORGANIZED BIGOTRY AND DISRUPTION ON THE FRINGES OF PROTESTANTISM.
$US 100.00
Roy, Ralph Lord.
APOSTLES OF DISCORD : A STUDY OF ORGANIZED BIGOTRY AND DISRUPTION ON THE FRINGES OF PROTESTANTISM.
Imprint: Boston : Beacon Press., 1953.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
8vo. 437 pages. First edition, third printing. The author, a methodist minister, led the largest clergy demonstration of the Civil rights era in the US. SUBJECT (S) : Protestant churches - United States; United States - religion. CONTENTS: Introduction; the ministries of hate and disruption; The Protestant underworld vs. Dwight D. Eisenhower; The plot against the Jews; Hitler's ghost in American garb; The self-anointed "chosen people"; Fiery crosses, the shame of America; "No Popery!"--bigotry's battlecry; Saboteurs of Protestant co-operation; "Modernism"--and the "battle of the Bible"; Seeing "red"; The hammer and sickle behind the cross; God and the "libertarians"; The struggle within Methodism; Denominational dilemmas; Conclusion: swords into plowshares. SERIES: Beacon studies in church and state. Ex library, otherwise good condition. (Holo2-12-16)
Stock number:23667.