Download or read book Awakening Verse written by Wendy Raphael Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1740, Benjamin Franklin published the first American edition of Gospel Sonnets, by the eminent Scottish Presbyterian minister Ralph Erskine. The work, already in its fifth British edition, quickly became an American bestseller and remained so throughout the eighteenth century. Franklin was aware of what most scholars of American religion and literature have forgotten -that poetry played a central role in the "surprising works of God" that birthed evangelicalism. The far-reaching social transformations precipitated by the transatlantic evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century depended upon the development of a major literary form, that of revival poetry. Literary scholars and historians of religion have prioritized sermons, conversion narratives, periodicals, and hymnody. Wendy Roberts here argues that poetry offered a unique capacity to "diffuse celestial Fervor through the World," in the words of the cleric Samuel Davies. Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address this large corpus of evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how literary history has rendered this poetic tradition invisible, and demonstrates how a vibrant popular poetics exercised a substantial effect on the landscape of early American religion, literature, and culture.

Download or read book Gospel Sonnets Or Spiritual Songs written by Ralph Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Sounding the Seasons written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in worship, in pastoral services and guided meditation. Here, Cambridge poet, priest and singer-songwriter Malcolm Guite transforms 70 lectionary readings into inspiring poems for use in regular worship, seasonal services, meditative reading or on retreat.

Download or read book Gospel Truth written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Gospel Truth Accurately Stated and Illustrated by the Reverend Messrs James Hog Thomas Boston Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine and Others written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parable and Paradox written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of the bestselling Sounding the Seasons, Malcolm Guite has repeatedly been asked for more sonnets. This new collection offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom, and the ‘hard sayings’ - Jesus’ challenging demands with which we wrestle. In addition this collection includes: •A sequence of seven sonnets on 'The Wilderness', exploring mysterious stories of divine encounter such as Jacob’s wrestling with the angel. •Poetic reflections on music, hospitality and ecology. •Seven short poems celebrating the days of creation. •A biblical index pairing the poems with scripture readings for use in worship.

Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism written by Jonathan Yeager and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelicalism, a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity, is one of the most popular and diverse religious movements in the world today. Evangelicals maintain the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus' atonement. Evangelicals can be found on every continent and among nearly all Christian denominations. The origin of this group of people has been traced to the turn of the eighteenth century, with roots in the Puritan and Pietist movements in England and Germany. The earliest evangelicals could be found among Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Moravians, and Presbyterians throughout North America, Britain, and Western Europe, and included some of the foremost names of the age, such as Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield. Early evangelicals were abolitionists, historians, hymn writers, missionaries, philanthropists, poets, preachers, and theologians. They participated in the major cultural and intellectual currents of the day, and founded institutions of higher education not limited to Dartmouth College, Brown University, and Princeton University. The Oxford Handbook of Early Evangelicalism provides the most authoritative and comprehensive overview of the significant figures and religious communities associated with early evangelicalism within the contextual and cultural environment of the long eighteenth century, with essays written by the world's leading experts in the field of eighteenth-century studies.

Download or read book The Poetical Works of the Reverend and Learned Ralph Erskine written by Ralph Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gospel Sonnets Or Poems on Various Religious Subjects written by Jonathan Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica Or A General Index to British and Foreign Literature written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Poetical Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr Ralph Erskine Containing I The Gospel Sonnets II A Paraphrase Upon the Song of Solomon III Scripture Songs IV Miscellaneous Poems on Different Subjects written by Ralph Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Faith Hope and Poetry written by Malcolm Guite and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the contribution poetry can make to our religious knowing and the way we 'do Theology'. Readers of this book will return to their reading of poetry equipped with new insights and enthusiasm and will be challenged to integrate imaginative ways of knowing into their other academic and intellectual pursuits.

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