Author: John Franklin GraffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
"Graybeard's" Lay Sermons
Author: John Franklin GraffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Church in the Wild
Author: Brett Malcolm GraingerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674239563
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A religious studies scholar argues that in antebellum America, evangelicals, not Transcendentalists, connected ordinary Americans with their spiritual roots in the natural world. We have long credited Emerson and his fellow Transcendentalists with revolutionizing religious life in America and introducing a new appreciation of nature. Breaking with Protestant orthodoxy, these New Englanders claimed that God could be found not in church but in forest, fields, and streams. Their spiritual nonconformity had thrilling implications but never traveled far beyond their circle. In this essential reconsideration of American faith in the years leading up to the Civil War, Brett Malcolm Grainger argues that it was not the Transcendentalists but the evangelical revivalists who transformed the everyday religious life of Americans and spiritualized the natural environment. Evangelical Christianity won believers from the rural South to the industrial North: this was the true popular religion of the antebellum years. Revivalists went to the woods not to free themselves from the constraints of Christianity but to renew their ties to God. Evangelical Christianity provided a sense of enchantment for those alienated by a rapidly industrializing world. In forested camp meetings and riverside baptisms, in private contemplation and public water cures, in electrotherapy and mesmerism, American evangelicals communed with nature, God, and one another. A distinctive spirituality emerged pairing personal piety with a mystical relation to nature. As Church in the Wild reveals, the revivalist attitude toward nature and the material world, which echoed that of Catholicism, spread like wildfire among Christians of all backgrounds during the years leading up to the Civil War.
The Literary World
Author: Books Added
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Critic
Author: Finding List
Author: Philadelphia. Apprentices' Library CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Godey's Lady's Book
Author: Finding List of Books in the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Belford's Monthly Magazine
Author: Finding List of the Apprentices' Library of Philadelphia
Author: Apprentices' Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description