A Sermon Preached Before the ... Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ... on Friday, February 15, 1739-40 ...
Author: Martin Benson
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Published: 1740
Total Pages: 40
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Author: Martin Benson
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Published: 1740
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bishop Martin (Glocester)
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Published: 1740
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Benson
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Published: 1740
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain)
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Published: 1730
Total Pages: 772
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Benson
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Published: 1740
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laura M. Stevens
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010-11-24
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0812203089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the English Civil War of 1642 and the American Revolution, countless British missionaries announced their intention to "spread the gospel" among the native North American population. Despite the scope of their endeavors, they converted only a handful of American Indians to Christianity. Their attempts to secure moral and financial support at home proved much more successful. In The Poor Indians, Laura Stevens delves deeply into the language and ideology British missionaries used to gain support, and she examines their wider cultural significance. Invoking pity and compassion for "the poor Indian"—a purely fictional construct—British missionaries used the Black Legend of cruelties perpetrated by Spanish conquistadors to contrast their own projects with those of Catholic missionaries, whose methods were often brutal and deceitful. They also tapped into a remarkably effective means of swaying British Christians by connecting the latter's feelings of religious superiority with moral obligation. Describing mission work through metaphors of commerce, missionaries asked their readers in England to invest, financially and emotionally, in the cultivation of Indian souls. As they saved Indians from afar, supporters renewed their own faith, strengthened the empire against the corrosive effects of paganism, and invested in British Christianity with philanthropic fervor. The Poor Indians thus uncovers the importance of religious feeling and commercial metaphor in strengthening imperial identity and colonial ties, and it shows how missionary writings helped fashion British subjects who were self-consciously transatlantic and imperial because they were religious, sentimental, and actively charitable.
Author: Robert Lowth
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Published: 1771
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert G. Ingram
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781843833482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new interpretation of English history and religion in the eighteenth century. The eighteenth century has long divided critical opinion. Some contend that it witnessed the birth of the modern world, while others counter that England remained an ancien regime confessional state. This book takes issue with both positions, arguing that the former overstate the newness of the age and largely misdiagnose the causes of change, while the latter rightly point to the persistence of more traditional modes of thought and behaviour, but downplay the era's fundamental uncertainty and misplace the reasons for and the timeline of its passage. The overwhelming catalyst for change is here seen to be war, rather than long-term social and economic changes. Archbishop Thomas Secker [1693-1768], the Cranmer or Laud of his age, and the hitherto neglected church reforms he spearheaded, form the particular focus of the book; this is the first full archivally-based study of a crucial but frequently ignored figure. ROBERT G. INGRAM is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Ohio University.
Author: Charles Trimnell
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Published: 1710
Total Pages: 24
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