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Isaac Nelson - Radical Abolitionist, Evangelical Presbyterian, and Irish Nationalist (Hardcover)
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Isaac Nelson - Radical Abolitionist, Evangelical Presbyterian, and Irish Nationalist (Hardcover)
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This book reconsiders the career of an important, controversial,
but neglected figure in this history of Irish Presbyterianism. The
Revd Isaac Nelson is mostly remembered for his opposition to the
evangelical revival of 1859, but this book demonstrates that there
was much more to Nelson's career. Nelson started out as a protege
of Henry Cooke and as an exemplary young evangelical minister. Upon
aligning himself with the Belfast Anti-Slavery Society and joining
forces with American abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and
William Lloyd Garrison, Nelson emerged as a powerful voice against
compromise with slaveholders. One of the central objectives of this
book is to show that anti-slavery, especially his involvement with
the 'Send Back the Money' controversy in the Free Church of
Scotland and the debate over fellowship with slaveholders at the
Evangelical Alliance, was crucially important to the development of
Nelson into one of Irish Presbyterianism's most controversial
figures. His later opposition to the 1859 Revival has often been
understood as being indicative of Nelson's opposition to
evangelicalism. This book argues that such a conclusion is mistaken
and that Nelson opposed the Revival as a Presbyterian evangelical.
His later involvement with the Land League and the Irish Home Rule
movement, including his tenure as the Member of Parliament for
County Mayo, could be easily dismissed as an entirely discreditable
affair. While avoiding romantic nostalgia in relation to Nelson's
nationalism, this book argues that Nelson's basis for advocating
Home Rule was not as peculiar as it might first appear.
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