Author: John William CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
General Objections Against Missions for the Conversion of the Heathen Considered
Author: John William CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
General Objections against Missions for the Conversion of the Heathen considered: a sermon preached at ... Bristol ... for the benefit of the Church Missionary Association in that city, etc
Author: John William CUNNINGHAMPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Eclectic Review
Author: Samuel GreatheedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
A Passionate Usefulness
Author: Gary D. SchmidtPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813922720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
In a literary environment dominated by men, the first American to earn a living as a writer and to establish a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic was, miraculously, a woman. Hannah Adams dared to enter--and in some ways was forced to enter--a sphere of literature that had, in eighteenth-century America, been solely a male province. Driven by poverty and necessity, and aided by an extraordinarily adept mind and keen sense of business, Adams authored works on New England history, sectarian history, and Jewish history, using and citing the most recent scholarly works being published in Great Britain and America. As a female writer, she would always remain something of an outsider, but her accomplishments did not by any means go unrecognized: embraced by the Boston intelligentsia and highly regarded throughout New England, Adams came to epitomize the possibility in a democratic society that anyone could rise to a circle of intellectual elites. In A Passionate Usefulness, the first book-length biography of this remarkable figure, Gary Schmidt focuses primarily on the intimate connection between Adams's reading and her own literary work. Hers is the story of incipient scholarship in the new nation, the story of a dependence that evolved into intellectual independence. Schmidt sets Adams's works in the context of her early poverty and desperate family situation, her decade-long feud with one of New England's most powerful Calvinist ministers, her alliance with the budding Unitarian movement in Boston, and her work establishing the first evangelical mission to Palestine (a task she accomplished virtually single-handedly). Today Adams still holds a place not only as a female writer who made her way economically in the book business before any other woman--or male writer--could do so, but also as a key figure in the transitional generation between the American Revolution and the Renaissance upon whose groundwork much of the country's later literature would build.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: History of American Missions to the Heathen, from Their Commencement to the Present Time
Author: Joseph TracyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Christian Missions and African Colonization
Author: John Bailey AdgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Students and the Present Missionary Crisis
Author: Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. International Convention. 6th, Rochester, N.Y., 1909-1910Publisher:
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Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Church Missionary Intelligencer and Record
Author: Be Always Converting, be Always Converted
Author: Rob WilsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674033436
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Wilson's reconceptualization of the American project of conversion begins with the story of Henry 'Ōpūkaha'ia, the first Hawaiian convert to Christianity, torn from his Native Pacific homeland and transplanted to New England. Wilson argues that 'Ōpūkaha'ia's conversion is both remarkable and prototypically American.