[Vision2020] Review of Fox-Genovese book.

[Robert Sentz]

This one from the Atlantic Monthly is also good, but a little different. 
Here Eugene Genovese is termed "The Greatest Living Historian."

http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2005/09/13/36463.aspx

Cheers
Rob

>From: DonaldH675 at aol.com
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Review of Fox-Genovese book.
>Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:08:49 EST
>
>Visionaries
>
>A friend sent me this link to a recent review of Elizabeth Fox Genovese's
>book  "The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith  in the Southern
>Slaveholders' Worldview."   (Some of you may  recall that she was to be the 
>featured
>speaker at a recent NSA graduation. And,  of course her husband has written 
>a
>blurb for Doug Wilson's reworked pamphlet  "Southern Slavery As It Was, 
>which
>is now called "Black and Tan." )
>
>The review points out the principle problems with the work (while
>acknowledging the great footnotes - Doug should read it for that reason  
>alone, he could
>use some polishing on that skill).  Ms.  Fox-Genovese is apparently about
>thirty years behind in the research  and  much of the book is devoted to 
>her
>understanding the minds of godly  Christian slaveholders etc. etc. etc.  
>(Maybe
>this was a collaborative  effort?)  If any NSA students are still reading 
>V2020
>I urge them to take a  look - the review is indicative of how real 
>historians
>work.
>_http://www.powells.com/review/2006_02_09_
>(http://www.powells.com/review/2006_02_09)
>
>Another link that is well worth following is a recently developed  website
>devoted to Christ Church East aka the Highland Study Center and its  
>pastor,
>R.C. Sproul Jr.  Spoul has been held accountable by his  presbytery (unlike 
>Doug,
>he actually attended a seminary and was ordained)  for spiritual abuse of
>church members.   Imagine  that.  just because Sproul likes his beer and 
>cigars,
>apparently misuses his church authority, and has confessed to tax fraud,
>those darned uptight Presbyterians have defrocked him.  Doug Wilson has  
>been
>kissing up to R.C. Jr. for years and has moved rapidly to entice him into
>Wilson's own self-started group of ecclesiastic pals, the Confederation of  
>Reformed
>Evangelicals.  Not surprisingly, CRE members specialize  in overlooking
>pastoral flaws probably because many of them learned  their theology at 
>under
>Doug's tutelage.  The website gives  special attention to Doug and Roy 
>Atwood.
>It's worth looking at - and  really, really, funny.  (Well funny to those 
>of us
>who haven't had to  endure the consequences of abusive religious egomaniacs 
>run
>amuck.)
>
>  _http://rc-sproul-jr.125mb.com/index.html_
>(http://rc-sproul-jr.125mb.com/index.html)
>
>Rose  Huskey
>
>"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight  you, then
>you win." Mahatma Gandhi


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