Olney Hymns
Olney Hymns

Author: John Newton

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1773562509

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One of the most influential and famous of hymn books that contains the famous hymn "Amazing Grace" with others that are still sung in churches today. This edition gives the hymns in poetic format so that the words of each song can stand out and speak for itself of the person of God and truth that can be brought out through song.

Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century
Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century

Author: James Bryant Reeves

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-09

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1108874819

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Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and William Cowper worried extensively about atheism's dystopian possibilities, and routinely represented atheists as being beyond the pale of human sympathy. Challenging traditional formulations of secularization that equate modernity with unbelief, Reeves reveals how reactions against atheism rather helped sustain various forms of religious belief throughout the Age of Enlightenment. He demonstrates that hostility to unbelief likewise produced various forms of religious ecumenicalism, with authors depicting non-Christian theists from around Britain's emerging empire as sympathetic allies in the fight against irreligion. Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century traces a literary history of atheism in eighteenth-century Britain for the first time, revealing a relationship between atheism and secularization far more fraught than has previously been supposed.

Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era
Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era

Author: Mike Rendell

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1473886074

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Trailblazing Women of the Georgian Era offers a fascinating insight into the world of female inequality in the Eighteenth Century. It looks at the reasons for that inequality the legal barriers, the lack of education, the prejudices and misconceptions held by men and also examines the reluctance of women to compete on an equal footing. Why did so many women accept that a womans place was in the home?' Using seventeen case studies of women who succeeded despite all the barriers and opposition, the author asks why, in the light of their success, so little progress was made in the Victorian era.Representing women from all walks of life; artists, business women, philanthropists, inventors and industrialists, the book examines the way that the Quaker movement, with its doctrine of equality between men and women, spawned so many successful businesses and helped propel women to the forefront. In the 225 years since the publication of Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, questions remain as to why those noble ideas about equality were left to founder during the Victorian era? And why are there still so many areas where, for historical reasons, equality is still a mirage?