Old Redstone, Or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism
Old Redstone, Or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism

Author: Joseph Smith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-19

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9781333279936

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Excerpt from Old Redstone, or Historical Sketches of Western Presbyterianism: Its Early Ministers, Its Perilous Times, and Its First Records Exerted, is incalculable. Does not this view of the case justify an inquiry into the old paths of our fathers? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830
Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830

Author: Peter E. Gilmore

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0822986248

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Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770–1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in the early years of America. Despite fractious relations among competing sects, many immigrants shared a vision of a renewed Ireland in which their versions of Presbyterianism could flourish free from the domination of landlords and established church. In the process, they created the institutional foundations for western Pennsylvanian Presbyterian churches. Rural Presbyterian Irish church elders emphasized community and ethnoreligious group solidarity in supervising congregants’ morality. Improved transportation and the greater reach of the market eliminated near-subsistence local economies and hastened the demise of religious traditions brought from Ireland. Gilmore contends that ritual and daily religious practice, as understood and carried out by migrant generations, were abandoned or altered by American-born generations in the context of major economic change.

The Great Revival
The Great Revival

Author: John B. Boles

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0813188474

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Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal salvation in a hopelessly evil world than in improving society. As Boles shows in this landmark study, the effect of the Revival was to throw over the region a conservative cast that remains dominant in contemporary southern thought and life.