That Ever Loyal Island
That Ever Loyal Island

Author: Phillip Papas

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2009-03

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0814767664

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Of crucial strategic importance to both the British and the Continental Army, Staten Island was, for a good part of the American Revolution, a bastion of Loyalist support. With its military and political significance, Staten Island provides rich terrain for Phillip Papas's illuminating case study of the local dimensions of the Revolutionary War. Papas traces Staten Island's political sympathies not to strong ties with Britain, but instead to local conditions that favored the status quo instead of revolutionary change. With a thriving agricultural economy, stable political structure, and strong allegiance to the Anglican Church, on the eve of war it was in Staten Island's self-interest to throw its support behind the British, in order to maintain its favorable economic, social, and political climate. Over the course of the conflict, continual occupation and attack by invading armies deeply eroded Staten Island's natural and other resources, and these pressures, combined with general war weariness, created fissures among the residents of “that ever loyal island,” with Loyalist neighbors fighting against Patriot neighbors in a civil war. Papas’s thoughtful study reminds us that the Revolution was both a civil war and a war for independence—a duality that is best viewed from a local perspective.

The Arabian Mission's Story
The Arabian Mission's Story

Author: Lewis R. Scudder

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 9780802846167

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Volume 30 recounts the eighty-year-long history of the RCA's mission work in the Middle East, written by a missionary who has spent decades in the Arabian Gulf. Including instructive discussion of missiological themes as well as the narrative of the church's daily work in Arabia, this volume is not only of denominational interest but will also provide important insights for mission students and those actively involved in a mission field.

The Reformed Church in America
The Reformed Church in America

Author: Marvin D. Hoff

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780802800817

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Hoff chronicles and analyzes the RCA's creative experiments in organizing for mission in America and around the world, recording the successes and shortcomings of a great variety of structures through which the church seeks to do Christ's work. While the book covers more than two centuries of mission work, the primary emphasis is on the period from 1945 to the present.

Theodorus Frelinghuysen’s Evangelism
Theodorus Frelinghuysen’s Evangelism

Author: Scott Maze

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 160178581X

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This book presents a thorough investigation of the evangelistic contributions of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1692–1747/8)within the context of the First Great Awakening. In it, Scott Maze identifies the theological foundations of Frelinghuysen’s ministry, surveys his key evangelistic endeavors, and evaluates the effects these things had on the Great Awakening. This book sheds light on a lesser known figure of the Great Awakening, reveals the influence of the Dutch Further Reformation (Nadere Reformatie) in colonial North America, and provides significant insights in terms of ministry contextualization for the contemporary student of evangelism. Table of Contents: 1. A Brief Biography 2. Theological Bases 3. Evangelistic Contributions 4. Catalyst to the First Great Awakening

Dutch Calvinism in Modern America
Dutch Calvinism in Modern America

Author: James D. Bratt

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780802800091

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"A rare combination of scholarship and wit. Delightful for anyone seeking insight on the Dutch in modern America." - George Marsden In this scholarly yet entertaining book, James D. Bratt takes a look at the Dutch in America from the late 19th century to the present. A comprehensive study of an ethnic subculture, the book is in large part a study of the groups religious history as well, since, as Bratt points out, the contours of the Dutch presence in America have been overwhelmingly shaped by the church and its subsidiary organizations. Although the book is extensively and scrupulously documented, Bratt has infused his scholarship with a considerable amount of anecdote that is by turns poignant and tragic and hilarious. In Bratts analysis of the fitful progress of Americanization that this close-knit religious community has undergone, we are treated to the sharp insights of a bemused and sometimes disaffected insider. Included is a chapter on novelists Arnold Mulder, David Cornel DeJong, Frederick Manfred, and Peter DeVries - four sons of the Dutch who fled the subculture only to reflect upon it almost obsessively from the outside. Well written, scholarly, and highly readable Dutch Calvinism in Modern America will have wide appeal among both academic and general readers. James D. Bratt is Professor of history at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

A Huguenot on the Hackensack
A Huguenot on the Hackensack

Author: David C. Major

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780838641521

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David Demarest or des Marets married Marie Sohier in 1643 in Middleburg the Netherlands. They emigrated in about 1663 and settled first in New York and later in New Jersey.