Author: Abel Thomas Publisher: Applewood Books ISBN: 1429018992 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 366
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With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.
Author: Russell E. Miller Publisher: ISBN: Category : Universalism Languages : en Pages : 1046
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Original unedited manuscript of The Larger Hope: The First Century of the Universalist Church in America, 1770-1870 by Tufts University history professor and archivist Russell Elliott Miller (1916-1993).
Author: Marianne Perciaccante Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791487342 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 204
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Calling Down Fire examines the social and cultural influence of Jefferson County, New York, an isolated, agrarian setting, on the formation of Charles Grandison Finney's theology and revival methods. Finney, who later became president of Oberlin College, was arguably the most innovative and influential revivalist of the Second Great Awakening. He pioneered methods which were widely adopted and promoted a theology that emphasized the ability of evangelists to save souls and the importance of free will in the salvation process. Marianne Perciaccante follows the course of religious enthusiasm and the evolution of the reform impulse in Jefferson County following Finney's departure for more influential pulpits. When Finney began to preach in Jefferson County, he brought Baptist and Methodist piety to the Presbyterians of the northern section of the county. This pious fervor eventually was adopted widely by middle-class Presbyterians and Congregationalists and constituted an acceptance by elites of tempered, non-elite piety.
Author: Ann Lee Bressler Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190284668 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 216
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In this volume Ann Lee Bressler offers the first cultural history of American Universalism and its central teaching -- the idea that an all-good and all-powerful God saves all souls. Although Universalists have commonly been lumped together with Unitarians as "liberal religionists," in its origins their movement was, in fact, quite different from that of the better-known religious liberals. Unlike Unitarians such as the renowned William Ellery Channing, who stressed the obligation of the individual under divine moral sanctions, most early American Universalists looked to the omnipotent will of God to redeem all of creation. While Channing was socially and intellectually descended from the opponents of Jonathan Edwards, Hosea Ballou, the foremost theologian of the Universalist movement, appropriated Edwards's legacy by emphasizing the power of God's love in the face of human sinfulness and apparent intransigence. Espousing what they saw as a fervent but reasonable piety, many early Universalists saw their movement as a form of improved Calvinism. The story of Universalism from the mid-nineteenth century on, however, was largely one of unsuccessful efforts to maintain this early synthesis of Calvinist and Enlightenment ideals. Eventually, Bressler argues, Universalists were swept up in the tide of American religious individualism and moralism; in the late nineteenth century they increasingly extolled moral responsibility and the cultivation of the self. By the time of the first Universalist centennial celebration in 1870, the ideals of the early movement were all but moribund. Bressler's study illuminates such issues as the relationship between faith and reason in a young, fast-growing, and deeply uncertain country, and the fate of the Calvinist heritage in American religious history.
Author: George Huntston Williams Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations ISBN: 9781558964419 Category : Universalism Languages : en Pages : 140
Author: Abel C. Thomas Publisher: ISBN: 9781331845256 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 364
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Excerpt from Century of Universalism in Philadelphia and New-York: With Sketches, of Its History in Reading, Hightstown, Brooklyn, and Elsewhere And it was told the king, saying, Behold the prophet is in Dothan. Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host; and they came by night and compassed the city about. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host encompassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas! my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not; for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw: And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. - After all the endeavors of one hundred years, we are numerically, in the sense of organization, a small people. We are surrounded by sects differing in name but holding substantially the same anti-Universalist creed; and there is sometimes the dismay and questioning of the young man. Whoso shall have his eyes opened, will understand the assurance of the prophet. I do not claim that all the beneficent changes of a century are attributable to Universalism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Abel Thomas
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