Author: Adam EmpiePublisher:
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Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Remarks on the Distinguishing Doctrine of Modern Universalism
Author: Adam EmpiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Universalism in America
Author: Richard EddyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life; Or, a Catalogue of Books Relating to the Nature, Origin and Destiny of the Soul, Etc
Author: Ezra ABBOT (the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Author: William Rounseville AlgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Future life
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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The Destiny of the Soul
Author: William Rounseville AlgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Future life
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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The Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life, Or, A Catalogue of Works Relating to the Nature, Origin, and Destiny of the Soul
Author: Ezra AbbotWe Shall Be No More
Author: Richard BellPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Suicide is a quintessentially individual act, yet one with unexpectedly broad social implications. Though seen today as a private phenomenon, in the uncertain aftermath of the American Revolution this personal act seemed to many to be a public threat that held no less than the fate of the fledgling Republic in its grip. Salacious novelists and eager newspapermen broadcast images of a young nation rapidly destroying itself. Parents, physicians, ministers, and magistrates debated the meaning of self-destruction and whether it could (or should) be prevented. Jailers and justice officials rushed to thwart condemned prisoners who made halters from bedsheets, while abolitionists used slave suicides as testimony to both the ravages of the peculiar institution and the humanity of its victims. Struggling to create a viable political community out of extraordinary national turmoil, these interest groups invoked self-murder as a means to confront the most consequential questions facing the newly united states: What is the appropriate balance between individual liberty and social order? Who owns the self? And how far should the control of the state (or the church, or a husband, or a master) extend over the individual?With visceral prose and an abundance of evocative primary sources, Richard Bell lays bare the ways in which self-destruction in early America was perceived as a transgressive challenge to embodied authority, a portent of both danger and possibility. His unique study of suicide between the Revolution and Reconstruction uncovers what was at stake-personally and politically-in the nation's fraught first decades.
The Gift of God Is Eternal Life
Author: Steven H. ProppPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 153201421X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
According to Christian doctrine, what happens to those who have died? While traditionally it has been said that one group of people spends eternity in heavenly happiness while another group experiences conscious, unending torment in hell, there are other Christians who believe in alternativesthat hell is simply a separation from God, that the lost are simply annihilated and not subject to torment, or that actually, in the end, all will be reconciled to God and live in heavenly glory. The Gift of God Is Eternal Life explores a five-century journey that traces the development and dispersal of the doctrines of universalism and conditional immorality in a compelling narrative collection of short stories. Beginning from when these doctrines were merely whispered about or published anonymously to the days when traveling evangelists preached them in the new and growing American republic, these engaging vignettes show how this once intense debate between Christians has evolved into modern times where such ideas can be freely discussedeven in mainstream television and evangelism. Do infants who die prior to an age of accountability receive salvation, and are those who have never heard the Christian message simply doomed? What about loved ones who die without having embraced the Christian gospelor those who believe in less-traditional Christian dogmas and institutions? The Gift of God Is Eternal Life can help both believers and nonbelievers understand the implications of these theological perspectivesnot just in an afterlife, but in their own lives here and now.
The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine
Author: The New-York Review
Author: Robert Charles SandsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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