American Calvinists - John Brown, Alvin Plantinga, Jay Gould, John Piper, John F. MacArthur, Paul Schrader, John Frame, Vern Ehlers (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: John Brown, Alvin Plantinga, Jay Gould, John Piper, John F. MacArthur, Paul Schrader, John Frame, Vern Ehlers, Jeannine Oppewall, Vern Poythress, R. C. Sproul, Steve Camp, Mark Driscoll, Wayne Grudem, Philip Schaff, James White, Carl F. H. Henry, Peter Leithart, Paul B. Henry, Leonard Schrader, D. A. Carson, Lemuel Haynes, Donald Barnhouse, Doug Phillips, Philip Ryken, Jerry Bridges, D. G. Hart, James Kennedy, R. Laird Harris, Thomas Ascol, Gregory Beale, J. Alan Groves, Steve Brown, David Eugene Edwards, Richard Gaffin, Joseph T. Bayly, Bryan Chapell, Ebenezer Fitch, Jeff Suffering, John L. Dagg, Leonard Woods, John Muether, Ray Chang. Excerpt: John Brown (May 9, 1800 - December 2, 1859) was a revolutionary abolitionist from the United States, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery for good. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in which he killed 5 men dragging them out of their house in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859. He was tried and executed for treason against the state of Virginia, murder, and conspiracy later that year. Brown has been called "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans." Brown's attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) electrified the nation. He was tried for treason against the state of Virginia, the murder of five pro-slavery Southerners, and inciting a slave insurrection and was subsequently hanged. Southerners alleged that his rebellion was the tip of the abolitionist iceberg and represented the wishes of the Republican Party. Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that, a year later, led to secession and the American Civil War. Brown first gained attention when he led ...