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This baptismal study guide will prepare children ages 8-10 for a
wonderful walk with Jesus. it offers lessons with activities that
parents and children can enjoy together as a bonding experience.
The activities include not only fill-in-the-blank but also word
games, Bible crosswords, and even a maze.
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David F. Holland
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This book makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field
of childhood studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
by drawing on the intersecting fields of girlhood, evangelicalism,
and reform to investigate texts written in North America about
girls, for girls, and by girls. Responding both to the intellectual
excitement generated by the rise of girlhood studies, as well as to
the call by recent scholars to recognize the significance of
religion as a meaningful category in the study of
nineteenth-century literature and culture, this collection locates
evangelicalism at the center of its inquiry into girlhood.
Contributors draw on a wide range of texts, including canonical
literature by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, and Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, and overlooked archives such as US Methodist Sunday
School fiction, children's missionary periodicals, and the
Christian Recorder, the flagship newspaper of the African Methodist
Episcopal (AME) Church. These essays investigate representations of
girlhood that engage, codify, and critique normative Protestant
constructions of girlhood. Contributors examine girlhood in the
context of reform, revealing the ways in which Protestantism at
once constrained and enabled female agency. Drawing on a range of
critical perspectives, including African American Studies,
Disability Studies, Gender Studies, and Material Culture Studies,
this volume enriches our understanding of nineteenth-century
childhood by focusing on the particularities of girlhood, expanding
it beyond that of the white able-bodied middle-class girl and
attending to the intersectionality of identity and religion.
Many Christians who receive a prophetic message, or "word," from
the Lord don't understand that its fulfillment is not necessarily
automatic. Others don't know how to determine if a prophetic word
really is from the Lord. And still others don't understand what
prophetic ministry is and how it works.
A veteran prophetic warrior, Barbara Wentroble is aware of the need
for training in Bible-based prophetic ministry. With insight and
wisdom, she explains not only how prophetic ministry works, but
also how believers today--like biblical characters of old--may need
to engage in spiritual warfare in order to receive promises that
really are from God. Wentroble shows that prophetic words are not
confined to church walls, and are not for a select few Christians
but for all. She gives readers the guidelines and prophetic
etiquette they need to help prevent abuse and misunderstanding,
while helping them find the incredible blessing of the biblical
gift of prophecy.
The Community of True Inspiration, or Inspirationists, was one of
the most successful religious communities in the United States.
This collection offers a broad variety of Inspirationist texts,
almost all of them translated from German and published here for
the first time.
Letters of important clergyman provide a well-informed and lively
commentary upon the religion, politics and society of the time. The
letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808) illuminate the career and
opinions of one of the most prominent and controversial clergymen
of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His petitions for
liberalism within the Church of England in 1772-3, his subsequent
resignation from the Church and his foundation of a separate
Unitarian chapel in London in 1774 all provoked profound debate in
the political as well as the ecclesiastical world. His chapel
became a focal point for the theologically and politically
disaffected and during the 1770s and early 1780s attracted the
interest of many critics of British policy towards the American
colonies. Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley and Richard Price
were among Lindsey's many acquaintances. The first of this
two-volume edition of the letters of Theophilus Lindsey covers the
period from 1747 to the eve of the French Revolution; their
subjects include religious and political debate, campaigns for
ecclesiastical and political reform, and the emergence of a
theologically distinct Unitarian denomination. The letters are
accompanied by full notes and introduction. G.M.DITCHFIELD is
Professor of Eighteenth-Century History, University of Kent at
Canterbury.
The ?Nonconformist conscience? was a major force in late Victorian
and Edwardian politics. The well-attended chapels of England and
Wales bred a race of Christian politicians who tried to exert a
moral influence on public affairs. This book analyses the political
impact of the Nonconformists at the peak of their strength when
they were near the centre of key debates of the time over such
matters as the growth of the British Empire and state provision of
social services. They had also launched campaigns of their own to
disestablish the Church of England and to secure public control of
the nation's schools. Based on extensive original research, this
study is the first to examine these themes.
This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism
intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth century.
Methodism emerged at a time when the idea of a 'public square' was
taking shape, a process facilitated by the periodical press.
Perhaps more so than any previous religious movement, Methodism,
and the publications associated with it, received greater scrutiny
largely because of periodical literature and the emergence of
popular review criticism. The book considers in particular how
works addressing Methodism were discussed and critiqued in the
era's two leading literary periodicals - The Monthly Review and The
Critical Review. Focusing on the period between 1749 and 1789, the
study encompasses the formative years of popular review criticism
and some of the more dramatic moments in the textual culture of
early Methodism. The author illustrates some of the specific ways
these review journals diverged in their critical approaches and
sensibilities as well as their politics and religious opinions. The
Monthly's and the Critical's responses to the Methodists' own
publishing efforts as well as the anti-Methodist critique are shown
to be both multifaceted and complex. The book critically reflects
on the pretended neutrality, reasonableness, and objectivity of
reviewers, who at times found themselves negotiating between the
desire to regulate literary tastes and the impulse to undermine the
Methodist revival. It will be relevant to scholars of religion,
history and literary studies with an interest in Methodism, print
culture, and the eighteenth century.
This book treads new ground by bringing the Evangelical and
Dissenting movements within Christianity into close engagement with
one another. While Evangelicalism and Dissent both have well
established historiographies, there are few books that specifically
explore the relationship between the two. Thus, this complex
relationship is often overlooked and underemphasised. The volume is
organised chronologically, covering the period from the late
seventeenth century to the closing decades of the twentieth
century. Some chapters deal with specific centuries but others
chart developments across the whole period covered by the book.
Chapters are balanced between those that concentrate on an
individual, such as George Whitefield or John Stott, and those that
focus on particular denominational groups like Wesleyan Methodism,
Congregationalism or the 'Black Majority Churches'. The result is a
new insight into the cross pollination of these movements that will
help the reader to understand modern Christianity in England and
Wales more fully. Offering a fresh look at the development of
Evangelicalism and Dissent, this volume will be of keen interest to
any scholar of Religious Studies, Church History, Theology or
modern Britain.
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose
impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith.
He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts
for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty
women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision
of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have
been distorted by hagiography or polemical expose, John Turner
provides a fully realized portrait of a colossal figure in American
religion, politics, and westward expansion.
After the 1844 murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Young
gathered those Latter-day Saints who would follow him and led them
over the Rocky Mountains. In Utah, he styled himself after the
patriarchs, judges, and prophets of ancient Israel. As charismatic
as he was autocratic, he was viewed by his followers as an
indispensable protector and by his opponents as a theocratic,
treasonous heretic.
Under his fiery tutelage, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints defended plural marriage, restricted the place of
African Americans within the church, fought the U.S. Army in 1857,
and obstructed federal efforts to prosecute perpetrators of the
Mountain Meadows Massacre. At the same time, Young's tenacity and
faith brought tens of thousands of Mormons to the American West,
imbued their everyday lives with sacred purpose, and sustained his
church against adversity. Turner reveals the complexity of this
spiritual prophet, whose commitment made a deep imprint on his
church and the American Mountain West."
A historical account of how leading evangelicals in the late
nineteenth century fused a passion for evangelism with social
service, cultural engagement and political activism.
How did America's white evangelicals, from often progressive
history, come to right-wing populism? Addressing populism requires
understanding how its historico-cultural roots ground present
politics. How have the very qualities that contributed much to
American vibrancy-an anti-authoritarian government-wariness and
energetic community-building-turned, under conditions of distress,
to defensive, us-them worldviews? Readers will gain an
understanding of populism and of the socio-political and religious
history from which populism draws its us-them policies and
worldview. The book ponders the tragic cast of the white
evangelical story: (i) the distorting effects of economic and
way-of-life duress on the understanding of history and present
circumstances and (ii) the tragedy of choosing us-them solutions to
duress that won't relieve it, leaving the duress in place. Readers
will trace the trajectory from economic, status loss, and
way-of-life duresses to solutions in populist, us-them binaries.
They will explore the robust white evangelical contribution to
civil society but also to racism, xenophobia, and sexism. White
evangelicals not in the ranks of the right-their worldview and
activism-are discussed in a final chapter. This book is valuable
reading for students of political and social sciences as well as
anyone interested in US politics.
Philip Gorski is a very well-known and highly respected author. His
work on Christianity and Democracy is ground breaking and he is a
pioneer of the field. The book is incredibly topical and will be of
interested to those studying Christianity, religion and politics
and evangelicalism. This will be the first academic book to take
this approach to the subject area.
This book explores the life and spirituality of John Cennick
(1718-1755) and argues for a new appreciation of the contradictions
and complexities in early evangelicalism. It explores Cennick's
evangelistic work in Ireland, his relationship with Count
Zinzendorf and the creative tension between the Moravian and
Methodist elements of his participation in the eighteenth-century
revivals. The chapters draw on extensive unpublished correspondence
between Cennick and Zinzendorf, as well as Cennick's unique diary
of his first stay in the continental Moravian centres of
Marienborn, Herrnhaag and Lindheim. A maverick personality, John
Cennick is seen at the centre of some of the principal
controversies of the time. The trajectory of his emergence as a
prominent figure in the revivals is remarkable in its intensity and
hybridity and brings into focus a number of themes in the landscape
of early evangelicalism: the eclectic nature of its inspirations,
the religious enthusiasm nurtured in Anglican societies, the
expansion of the pool of preaching talent, the social tensions
unleashed by religious innovations, and the particular nature of
the Moravian contribution during the 1740s and 1750s. Offering a
major re-evaluation of Cennick's spirituality, the book will be of
interest to scholars of evangelical and church history.
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