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Author: Angella Current Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 156
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"Just as Roots told the story of the early African American experience in the United States, Breaking Barriers illustrates the experience of African Americans within the church and the important role that family and faith played in molding the character and work of numerous individuals. Although Breaking Barriers is the story of one woman's remarkable achievement, it is also a testament to the success of a black family, and it is ultimately the story of America."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Angella Current Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 156
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"Just as Roots told the story of the early African American experience in the United States, Breaking Barriers illustrates the experience of African Americans within the church and the important role that family and faith played in molding the character and work of numerous individuals. Although Breaking Barriers is the story of one woman's remarkable achievement, it is also a testament to the success of a black family, and it is ultimately the story of America."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Anna M. Lawrence Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812204174 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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Originally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the beginning, though, Methodists constituted a dissenting religious group whose ideas about sexuality, marriage, and family were very different from those of their contemporaries. Focusing on the Methodist notion of family that cut across biological ties, One Family Under God speaks to historical debates over the meaning of family and how the nuclear family model developed over the eighteenth century. Historian Anna M. Lawrence demonstrates that Methodists adopted flexible definitions of affection and allegiance and emphasized extended communal associations that enabled them to incorporate people outside the traditional boundaries of family. They used the language of romantic, ecstatic love to describe their religious feelings and the language of the nuclear family to describe their bonds to one another. In this way, early Methodism provides a useful lens for exploring eighteenth-century modes of family, love, and authority, as Methodists grappled with the limits of familial and social authority in their extended religious family. Methodists also married and formed conjugal families within this larger spiritual framework. Evangelical modes of marriage called for careful, slow courtships, and often marriages happened later in life and produced fewer children. Religious views of the family offered alternatives to traditional coupling and marriage—through celibacy, spiritual service, and the idea of finding one's true spiritual match, which both challenged the role of parental authority within marriage-making and accelerated the turn within the larger society toward romantic marriage. By examining the language and practice of evangelical sexuality and family, One Family Under God highlights how the Methodist movement in the eighteenth century was central to the rise of romantic marriage and the formation of the modern family.
Author: Julius Bailey Publisher: ISBN: 9780813028422 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 151
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Informative and controversial, this book explores the issue of domesticity in the 19th-century African Methodist Episcopal Church. For many in the church, their power to shape the dynamics of the family was the key to strengthening the spirit and role of African-Americans following the Civil War. In the midst of a hostile racial and political climate, black ministers and their congregations embraced Victorian notions of domesticity as a stabilizing force. Julius H. Bailey shows that they used the ideology to overcome regional tensions, restore families torn apart during slavery, challenge the legitimacy of female preachers, and nurture the spiritual growth of children and the religious life of the home. He also examines the ways male church leaders used the concept to defend their leadership, express hopes and fears, and fend off Social Darwinian attacks on their character. Discussions of domesticity helped African-Americans to understand the traits of a good father and mother, even as 19th-century ideas about the home were shifting. Were fathers to be stern heads of households or reclusive, prayerful figures who deferred to mothers? Were mothers natural nurturers? Or should they seek training to become domestic educators? For many of the diverse 19th-century black families, ministers of the AME church offered a universal familial philosophy that could bring harmony to the home. Using the voices of men and women and of clergy and laity and mining the principal publications of the AME church, Bailey presents a new understanding of family life in American religious history.
Author: Dr. Ted A. Campbell Publisher: Abingdon Press ISBN: 1426753470 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 149
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In this concise, accessible book, Dr. Ted Campbell provides a brief summary of the major doctrines shared in the Wesley family of denominations. Writing in concise and straightforward language, Campbell organizes the material into systematic categories: doctrine of revelation, doctrine of God, doctrine of Christ, doctrine of the Spirit, doctrine of humanity, doctrine of "the way of salvation" (conversion/justification/sanctification), doctrine of the church and means of grace, and doctrine of thing to come. He also supplies substantial buy simplified updated references in the margins of the book that allow for easy identification of his sources. John Wesley distinguished between essential doctrines on which agreement or consensus is critical and opinions about theology or church practices on which disagreement must be allowed. Though today few people join churches based on doctrinal commitments, once a person has joined a church it becomes important to know the teachings of that church's tradition. In Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials, Ted Campbell outlines historical doctrinal consensus in American Episcopal Methodist Churches in a comparative and ecumenical dialogue with the doctrinal inheritance of other major families of Christian tradition. In this way, the book shows both what Methodist churches historically teach in common with ecumenical Christianity and what is distinctive about the Methodist tradition in its various contemporary forms. For more information, please see the author's website: http://tedcampbell.com/methodist-doctrine/
Author: Anonymous Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781013230776 Category : Languages : en Pages : 174
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Author: World Methodist Council. Provisional World Family Life Committee Publisher: ISBN: Category : Church and social problems Languages : en Pages : 105
Author: David Hempton Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300106149 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 294
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Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.
Author: Angella Current
Author: Angella Current
Author: Young Methodism
Author: Anna M. Lawrence
Author: UMFS (Organization)
Author: Anna M. Lawrence
Author: Julius Bailey
Author: Dr. Ted A. Campbell
Author: Anonymous
Author: World Methodist Council. Provisional World Family Life Committee
Author: David Hempton