Robert Lewis Dabney | |
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| Born | Robert Lewis Dabney March 5, 1820 |
| Died | January 3, 1898 (aged 77) |
| Resting place | Union Presbyterian Seminary Cemetery[1] Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, U.S. |
| Education | Hampden-Sydney College University of Virginia Union Theological Seminary |
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| Parent(s) | Charles Dabney Elizabeth Randolph Price Dabney. |
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Robert Lewis Dabney (March 5, 1820 – January 3, 1898) was a Southern Presbyterian pastor and theologian, Confederate army chaplain, and architect from Virginia. He was also chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson; his biography of Jackson remains in print today.
Dabney and James Henley Thornwell were two of Southern Presbyterianism's most influential scholars. They were both Calvinist, Old School Presbyterians, and social conservatives. Some conservative Presbyterians, particularly within the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, still value their theological writings, although some within these churches have repudiated Dabney's and Thornwell's beliefs in support of white supremacy and antebellum slavery.[2][3]
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Gravewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "E-Books". PCA Historical Center. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
Any statements in [Thomas Cary Johnson's History of the Southern Presbyterian Church] in support of the institution of slavery or in support of racial supremacy should be clearly and obviously understood to be rejected by the Presbyterian Church in America, by the PCA Historical Center, and by the Center's director.
- ^ "Hermeneutics of Women in Ordained Office". Fifty-fourth General Assembly (report). Orthodox Presbyterian Church. 1987. Retrieved 2007-03-11.
Slavery is a man-made institution, a sinful one at that, and it is rightfully abolished altogether.