Fifty Years of Methodism
Author: Charles Volney Anthony
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 478
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Author: Charles Volney Anthony
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 478
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Hempton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0300106149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.
Author: Newell Culver
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-26
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 336819447X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author: John H. Wigger
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780252069949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1770 there were fewer than 1,000 Methodists in America. Fifty years later, the church counted more than 250,000 adherents. Identifying Methodism as America's most significant large-scale popular religious movement of the antebellum period, John H. Wigger reveals what made Methodism so attractive to post-revolutionary America. Taking Heaven by Storm shows how Methodism fed into popular religious enthusiasm as well as the social and economic ambitions of the "middling people on the make"--skilled artisans, shopkeepers, small planters, petty merchants--who constituted its core. Wigger describes how the movement expanded its reach and fostered communal intimacy and "intemperate zeal" by means of an efficient system of itinerant and local preachers, class meetings, love feasts, quarterly meetings, and camp meetings. He also examines the important role of African Americans and women in early American Methodism and explains how the movement's willingness to accept impressions, dreams, and visions as evidence of the work and call of God circumvented conventional assumptions about education, social standing, gender, and race. A pivotal text on the role of religion in American life, Taking Heaven by Storm shows how the enthusiastic, egalitarian, entrepreneurial, lay-oriented spirit of early American Methodism continues to shape popular religion today.
Author: J. Ellsworth Kalas
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1426752342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat exactly is a Methodist?
Author: Jason E. Vickers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-07
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1107008344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive introduction to various forms of American Methodism, exploring the beliefs and practices around which the lives of these churches have revolved.
Author: Alexander Walker Wayman
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dr. Jason E. Vickers
Publisher: Kingswood Books
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1426746105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1968, the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) churches merged to form The United Methodist Church. More than forty years later, many United Methodists know very little about the history, doctrine, and polity of the EUB. To be sure, there are vestiges of the EUB, most notably the Confession of Faith, in the United Methodist Book of Discipline, but there is much more to be profitably explored. For example, the EUB represents a strand of German Pietism that developed an emphasis on the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church that, with the exception of Wesley, Fletcher and the early Methodists, was unparalleled in the history of Protestantism. This book makes accessible to clergy and laity alike the considerable riches of the EUB tradition with a view toward the renewal of United Methodism today.
Author: Darryl W. Stephens
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781621902409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMethodist Morals offers keen insight into the public church, interpreting the United Methodist Social Principles as a dynamic discourse about morality and human rights in light of faith. Revised every four years by the General Conference of the United Methodist Church, the Social Principles exposes the moral deliberations of this distinctly American and increasingly ?worldwide? church as it struggles to achieve community across multiple languages and cultures. Perhaps no other document provides as rich a depiction of Protestants participating in the moral argument of public life. This is the first full-length study of Methodist social teachings in over fifty years. Examining official Methodist teachings from institutional, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives, Darryl Stephens provides a rich analysis of this case study of Protestant social witness, drawing on his expertise in church polity, Methodist history, and Christian social ethics. A wide range of comparisons— with documents of the United Nations, with moral debate in Germany and Zimbabwe, and with historical Methodist statements of social witness—shows the Social Principles to be a unique form of social witness. The issues of war,abortion, human sexuality, and marriage illustrate the messiness of democratic deliberation in an ecclesial context and the evolution of a people ever concerned with the sin of ?worldliness? even as they become more attuned to transforming social structures. Stephens also contrasts this conception of the public church with the ecclesiologies of prominent Methodist ethicists Stanley Hauerwas and Paul Ramsey. Intended for students of Methodism, ecumenical church leaders, and scholars of Christian social ethics and contemporary US mainline religion, this work reveals the challenges to and possibilities for achieving moral community in an increasingly global and diverse world--from publisher's website.
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Published: 1822
Total Pages: 872
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