Sunday School
Sunday School

Author: Anne M. Boylan

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780300048148

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This engrossing book traces the social history of Protestant Sunday schools from their origins in the 1790s--when they taught literacy to poor working children--to their consolidation in the 1870s, when they had become the primary source of new church members for the major Protestant denominations. Anne M. Boylan describes not only the schools themselves but also their place within a national network of evangelical institutions, their complementary relationship to local common schools, and their connection with the changing history of youth and women in the nineteenth century. Her book is a signal contribution to our understanding of American religious and social history, education history, women's history, and the history of childhood.

Housewife Theologian
Housewife Theologian

Author: Aimee Byrd

Publisher: P & R Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781596386655

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Women who want God to be more than superficially in their lives can rise above the world's expectations by becoming housewife theologians finding true meaning and true worship everyday. Great for journaling and for group discussion.

Robert Raikes
Robert Raikes

Author: J. Henry Harris

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781414111650

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In 1780, the story of Sunday School began when Robert Raikes walked down the steps from his second story printing office to the street below. There, he encountered a wash woman that complained that the swearing of the children on the Sabbath Day made it sound more like hell than heaven. At that moment God dropped a word into his heart-try. Raikes took thirty children off the street and began to teach them how to read. Their first lessons were "God is One" and "God is love." He cleaned them up, gave them clothes, and taught them that vice is preventable and that a good example can draw others like a magnet. Other children were drawn so that the one school grew to seven schools; and after three years, he published to the world the effects of his experiment. He called it "botanizing in human nature." In a letter to a friend, he explained that his vision was to "create a new race out of what others called waste." By the time Robert Raikes died, over four hundred thousand children were enrolled in Sunday Schools. The story you are about to read was first told to a Sunday School class by J. Henry Harris in 1900. The author edited this story so that the testimony of Robert Raikes may inspire us to believe in the power of God's Word to transform lives and shape the future of our nation. Dr. Michael Peters graduated cum laude from Covenant Theological Seminary and holds a Ph.D. in historical theology from Saint Louis University.