Author: George WhitefieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's Supper
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Communion Morning's Companion
Author: George WhitefieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's Supper
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield; In Two Volumes
Author: Luke TyermanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387082134
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield
Author: Luke TyermanThe Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, B.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford
Author: Luke TyermanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385539544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Pedlar in Divinity
Author: Frank LambertPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691096162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A pioneer in the commercialization of religion, George Whitefield (1714-1770) is seen by many as the most powerful leader of the Great Awakening in America: through his passionate ministry he united local religious revivals into a national movement before there was a nation. An itinerant British preacher who spent much of his adult life in the American colonies, Whitefield was an immensely popular speaker. Crossing national boundaries and ignoring ecclesiastical controls, he preached outdoors or in public houses and guild halls. In London, crowds of more than thirty thousand gathered to hear him, and his audiences exceeded twenty thousand in Philadelphia and Boston. In this fresh interpretation of Whitefield and his age, Frank Lambert focuses not so much on the evangelist's oratorical skills as on the marketing techniques that he borrowed from his contemporaries in the commercial world. What emerges is a fascinating account of the birth of consumer culture in the eighteenth century, especially the new advertising methods available to those selling goods and services--or salvation. Whitefield faced a problem similar to that of the new Atlantic merchants: how to reach an ever-expanding audience of anonymous strangers, most of whom he would never see face-to-face. To contact this mass "congregation," Whitefield exploited popular print, especially newspapers. In addition, he turned to a technique later imitated by other evangelists such as Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday, and Billy Graham: the deployment of advance publicity teams to advertise his coming presentations. Immersed in commerce themselves, Whitefield's auditors appropriated him as a well-publicized English import. He preached against the excesses and luxuries of the spreading consumer society, but he drew heavily on the new commercialism to explain his mission to himself and to his transatlantic audience.
The Life of Thomas Ken
Author: John Lavicount AnderdonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A Companion for the Altar, Or, Week's Preparation for the Holy Communion
Author: John Henry HobartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's Supper
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Companion for the Altar, or week's preparation for the Holy Communion, etc. Fourth edition ... corrected
Author: John Henry HOBART (Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A companion to the altar; or, Week's preparation for the Holy communion. Ed. by J. Collingwood
Author: John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Transfusion
Author: Ann Louise KibbiePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813943140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"England may with justice claim to be the native land of transfusion," wrote one European physician in 1877, acknowledging Great Britain’s crucial role in developing and promoting human-to-human transfusion as treatment for life-threatening blood loss. As news of this revolutionary medical technique spread from professional publications to popular journals and newspapers, the operation invaded the Victorian imagination. Transfusion is the first extended study of this intersection between medical and literary history. It examines the medical discourse that surrounded the real nineteenth-century practice of transfusion, which focused on women suffering from uterine hemorrhage, alongside literary works that exploited the operation’s sentimental, satirical, sensational, and gothic potentials. In the eighteenth century, the term "transfusion" was used to figure aesthetic and religious inspiration as well as erotic and romantic commingling—associations that persisted into the nineteenth century and informed attitudes toward the medical practice of blood transfer and the cultural conception of sympathetic exchange. Exploring transfusion’s role in canonical works such as Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau and Stoker’s Dracula, as well as a surprising array of lesser-known short stories and novels, Kibbie demonstrates the tangled, mutually informing relationship between science and culture. This innovative study traces the creation of a new fluid economy between persons, one that could be seen to forge new forms of intimacy between donors and recipients or to threaten the very idea of personal identity.