Author: James P. PilkingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Methodist Publishing House
Author: James P. PilkingtonThe Methodist publishing house
Author: The Methodist Publishing House
Author: CokesburyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780687267002
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Drawing its information almost entirely from primary sources, this book details the story of the first 100 years of American Methodist publishing in the context of the events of American history. Often the quotations themselves--from early newspapers, private papers, journals, and business documents--tell the story of this denominational enterprise as it affected and was affected by American history from the colonial period through the Civil War. The book deals with three Methodist publishing programs headquartered in New York City, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Nashville, and San Francisco. It includes information about books published, editorial policies, manufacturing methods, sales techniques, and personalities of the people who directed the publishing programs. It is illustrated with extensive quotations from source materials and with contemporaneous paintings, drawings, and engravings.
The Methodist Publishing House: Beginnings to 1870
Author: James Penn PilkingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Methodist Publishing House: Beginnings to 1870
Author: James Penn PilkingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The United Methodist Publishing House
Author: Walter N. VernonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and the press
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The United Methodist Publishing House; a history, volume II, from 1870 to 1988
Author: Walter Newton Vernon (Jr)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Methodist Publishing House
Author: The Methodist Publishing House: 1870-1988
Author: James Penn PilkingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Methodism in the American Forest
Author: Russell E. RicheyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190266562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic outreach. Methodism in the American Forest explores the ways in which Methodist preachers interacted with and utilized the American woodland, and the role camp meetings played in the denomination's spread across the country. Half a century before they made themselves such a home in the woods, the people and preachers learned the hard way that only a fool would adhere to John Wesley's mandate for preaching in fields of the New World. Under the blazing American sun, Methodist preachers sought and found a better outdoor sanctuary for large gatherings: under the shade of great oaks, a natural cathedral where they held forth with fervid sermons. The American forests, argues Russell E. Richey, served the preachers in several important ways. Like a kind of Gethesemane, the remote, garden-like solitude provided them with a place to seek counsel from the Holy Spirit. They also saw the forest as a desolate wilderness, and a means for them to connect with Israel's years after the Exodus and Jesus's forty days in the desert after his baptism by John. The dauntless preachers slashed their way through, following America's expanding settlement, and gradually sacralizing American woodlands as cathedral, confessional, and spiritual challenge-as shady grove, as garden, and as wilderness. The threefold forest experience became a Methodist standard. The meeting of Methodism's basic governing body, the quarterly conference, brought together leadership of all levels. The event stretched to two days in length and soon great crowds were drawn by the preaching and eventually the sacraments that were on offer. Camp meetings, if not a Methodist invention, became the movement's signature, a development that Richey tracks throughout the years that Methodism matured, to become a central denomination in America's religious landscape.