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Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Christian Memoirs, Or, The Nature of Conviction of Sin and Regeneration
Author: Christian Memoirs, Or, the Nature of Conviction of Sin and Regeneration: Illustrated in Narratives
Author: Heman HumphreyPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530622187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America
Author: Julius H. RubinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195083016
Category : Anorexia nervosa
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This thought-provoking study examines an apparent paradox in the history of American Protestant evangelical religion. Fervent believers who devoted themselves completely to the challenges of making a Christian life, who longed to know God's rapturous love, all too often languished in despair, feeling forsaken by God. Indeed, some individuals became obsessed by guilt, terror of damnation, and the idea that they had committed an unpardonable sin. Ironically, those most devoted to fostering the soul's maturation seemingly neglected the well-being of the psyche. Drawing upon many sources, including unpublished diaries, spiritual narratives, and case studies of patients treated in nineteenth-century asylums, Julius Rubin thoroughly explores religious melancholy - as a distinctive stance toward life, a grieving over the loss of God's love, and an obsession and psycho pathology associated with the spiritual itinerary of conversion. The varieties of this spiritual sickness include sinners who would fast unto death ("evangelical anorexia nervosa"), religious suicides, and those obsessed with unpardonable sin. From colonial Puritans like Michael Wigglesworth to contemporary evangelicals like Billy Graham, Rubin shows that religious melancholy has shaped the experience of self and identity for those who sought rebirth as children of God. Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America offers a fresh and revealing look at a widely recognized phenomenon. It will be of interest to scholars and students of religious studies, American history, psychology, and sociology of religion.
Dictionary of Early American Philosophers
Author: John R. ShookPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1843711826
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1249
Book Description
The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.
Christian Memoirs, Or the Nature of Conviction of Sin and Regeneration
Author: Heman HumphreyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484238595
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Excerpt from Christian Memoirs, or the Nature of Conviction of Sin and Regeneration: Illustrated in Narratives of the Conversion of Eminent Christians Such are the inquiries which spontaneously spring up in almost every mind, and how can they be answered by merely saying, that during so many weeks, months, or years, he was in great distress of mind, and was at last brought up out of the horrible pit and miry clay, and had a new song put into his mouth? However thorough and genuine the work of God upon the heart Of any sinner may seem to be at first, how can we know that he is really born again? He may be self deceived, or he may for a time assume 'the form Of godliness' from sinister motives. The evidence of his conversion is to be sought for m a religious life.' Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit.' 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.
Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History: June 1792-September 1805
Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History
Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: June 1792-September 1805
Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College
Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 836
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The American Quarterly Register
Author: B. EdwardsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385609925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.