The Battle of the Giants: A Debate on the Roman Catholic Religion, held in Cincinnati....Together with the Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance
Cincinnati: C.F. Vent, 1875. Hardcover. Ex-library, with stamps of the Salesian Fathers of San Francisco on the endpapers and titlepage and remains of sticker on spine. Worn brown cloth boards, with fraying at head, tail and corners. Toning to pages, occasional faint tide mark in margin. viii, 9-360; 247, [1]pp. A record of religious tensions in the nineteenth century, combining the complete text of the friendly 1837 debate between the Catholic Bishop John Purcell and the Protestant minister Alexander Campbell with Gladstone's 1874 "The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance", with various replies, an abstract of Gladstone's rejoinder, and appendices. Published in Cincinnati by C.F. Vent and by J.S. Goodman & Co. in Chicago. Good. Item #2026-S62
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