This study examines the rise of the holiness movement in Georgia
following the Civil War. Employing a blend of social and
intellectual historical methods, the study pays particular
attention to the shifting cultural conditions occurring in Georgia
and the rest of the Southeast around the turn of the century and
shows how these changes influenced the movement.
The study offers two major theses regarding the
Wesleyan-Holiness movement in the United States. First the Holiness
movement which emerged in the North after 1830 emphasizing the
speedy attainment of human perfectibility failed to attract
receptive audiences in the South due primarily to the cultural
conditions of the region. Southern Christians were deeply affected
by the culture of honor and the frequent violence it spawned.
Moreover, Southerners were reluctant to subscribe to the Northern
formula of Phoebe Palmer's "quick and easy" means to achieve
perfect love when they recognized the ambiguities of the slave
system -- a system most Southerners understood as a necessary
evil.
Second, during the Reconstruction period, at a time when most
Southerners were searching for new beginnings, the Wesleyan
doctrine of immediately acquired "perfect love" began attracting
widespread support in the Southeast. The study examines the
Holiness movement's emergence in Georgia, and demonstrates that
contrary to the views of several historians, a significant number
of Wesleyan Holiness advocates in the New South were not drawn from
the ranks of the dispossessed, but were in fact members of the
region's burgeoning middle class.
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