Author: Thomas CokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Half bindings (Binding)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Extracts of the Journals of the Rev. Dr. Coke's Five Visits to America
Author: Thomas CokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Half bindings (Binding)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Extracts of the Journals of the Rev. Dr. Coke's Three Visits to America
Author: Thomas CokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Methodism in the American Forest
Author: Russell E. RicheyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199359636
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.
The Cambridge History of American Literature
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The Letters of Dr. Thomas Coke
Author: Thomas CokePublisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1426757719
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 809
Book Description
Annotated and critical edition of the letters of one of early Methodism's most influential founders.
American Social History as Recorded by British Travellers
Author: Allan NevinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Author: Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Author: Abel Stevens