Download or read book The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders written by Rimi Xhemajli and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders, Rimi Xhemajli shows how a small but passionate movement grew and shook the religious world through astonishing signs and wonders. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, early American Methodist preachers, known as circuit riders, were appointed to evangelize the American frontier by presenting an experiential gospel: one that featured extraordinary phenomena that originated from God’s Spirit. In employing this evangelistic strategy of the gospel message fueled by supernatural displays, Methodism rapidly expanded. Despite beginning with only ten official circuit riders in the early 1770s, by the early 1830s, circuit riders had multiplied and caused Methodism to become the largest American denomination of its day. In investigating the significance of the supernatural in the circuit rider ministry, Xhemajli provides a new historical perspective through his eye-opening demonstration of the correlation between the supernatural and the explosive membership growth of early American Methodism, which fueled the Second Great Awakening. In doing so, he also prompts the consideration of the relevance and reproduction of such acts in the American church today.
Download or read book Fire and Fragrance written by Andy Byrd and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have come to cast fire upon the earth; and how I wish it were already kindled! (Luke 12:49 NASB) Passionately devoted to revival and reformation, the authors vividly describe the perspective that God is giving to a generation, the power He is releasing, and the potential of a people set ablaze for God. Exciting new areas of discovery include: A lifestyle of living in the confluence of prayer/worship and mission Perspective of what God is doing today and what we are on the verge of. Living a lifestyle of holiness that pleases God and sustains revival and reformation. God is releasing a groan for fervent prayer and a devotion to unabashed worship that leads to simple service and great exploits . Fire and Fragrance is a call to action for a new generation of zealots. From the American heartland, to Nepal, to almost all points between, you will explore lands and realms beyond imagination. For over 2,000 years, fire has been poured out across the earth and is raging now like never before. This fire is filling a people who are fascinated with the beauty of Jesus, whose hearts are in sync with the yearnings of His heart, and who will give their lives to see the fragrance of Christ spread to every remote corner of Earth!
Download or read book Fiction a Finding List of Novels Stories and Other Forms of Prose Fiction in English for Adults in the Chicago Public Library January 1 1921 written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yesterday with the Fathers written by William Wilberforce Newton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Country Life in America written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Stories in American Literature 1861 1896 written by Henrietta Christian Wright and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Stories in American Literature 1660 1896 written by Henrietta Christian Wright and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of a Circuit Rider written by Stephen Faller and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaplaincy. Pastoral care. Ministry. The care of souls. What lies beneath that which lies beneath them? Like Virgil, chaplain Stephen Faller guides an unusual tour winding through personal disclosure about ministry, adoption, chaplaincy, and disability. Contextualized within chaplaincy and clinical pastoral education, Faller examines these "visions from a little-known country." Within the landscape are the sights of living in a post-9/11 world as they prefigure the change and uncertainty that marked American life and ministry after the pandemic of 2020. A conclusion to "a dialectical inquiry at the end of the world," Faller explores the history of philosophy and religion in order to navigate an already unusual life within strange times. Essential reading for chaplains, and helpful insights for all those within the helping professions. As ministry continues to move beyond the surrounding walls of the institutional building, Faller suggests that chaplaincy can be a meaningful space for ordained ministry as one of the great "spaces between spaces." Moreover, this confessor's confession spells a way for storytellers and story collectors to find direction when meaning is lost. Chaplaincy itself is a meaningful response to a world turned upside down.
Download or read book The Experiences of Uncle Jack Being a Biography of Rev Andrew Jackson Newgent written by W. Ed. Snyder and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography is one of the most important departments of literature, and Mr. Newgent is eminently worthy of the permanent place in history that this volume accords him. Fitting tributes in historic sketches should not only be paid to the men of God who have planted the Church in this nation, but posterity should come and say over their graves, as Pericles did over the bodies of his fallen fellow soldiers: "You are like the divinities above us: you are known only by the benefits you have conferred." Entering the ministry before our pioneer style of life had passed away in the west, Mr. Newgent adapted himself to the humblest conditions of society. He could lodge in the loft of the lowliest cabin and subsist upon the cheapest fare. There have been no dangers or hardships, no toils or privations, no suffering or sorrow sufficient to daunt his heroic spirit. Fortunately, Mr. Newgent is so constructed as to see the bright side of every difficulty, and his inimitable humor has made his family and friends laugh in the darkest hours of his ministerial life.
Download or read book The Circuit written by Francisco Jiménez and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories about the life of a migrant family.
Download or read book Displacing the Divine written by Douglas Alan Walrath and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God. From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. Displacing the Divine offers a novel encounter with social change, giving the reader access, through the intimacy and humanity of literature, to the evolving character of an American tradition.
Download or read book The Force of Fantasy written by Ernest G. Bormann and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1985, Ernest G. Bormann explores mass persuasion in America from 1620 to 1860, examining closely four rhetorical communities: the revivals of 1739-1740, the hot gospel of the postrevolutionary period, the evangelical revival and reform of the 1830s, and the Free Soil and Republican parties. Each community varies greatly, but Bormann asserts that each succeeding community shares a rhetorical vision of restoring the "American Dream" that is essentially a modification of the previous visions. Thus, they form a family of rhetorical visions that constitutes a rhetorical tradition of importance in nineteenth-century American popular culture.
Download or read book From Social Movement to Moral Market written by Paul-Brian McInerney and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In From Social Movement to Moral Market, Paul-Brian McInerney explores what happens when a movement of activists gives way to a market for entrepreneurs. This book explains the transition by tracing the brief and colorful history of the Circuit Riders, a group of activists who sought to lead nonprofits across the digital divide. In a single decade, this movement spawned a market for technology assistance providers, dedicated to serving nonprofit organizations. In contrast to the Circuit Riders' grassroots approach, which was rooted in their commitment to a cause, these consultancies sprung up as social enterprises, blending the values of the nonprofit sector with the economic principles of for-profit businesses. Through a historical-institutional analysis, this narrative shows how the values of a movement remain intact even as entrepreneurs displace activists. While the Circuit Riders serve as a rich core example in the book, McInerney's findings speak to similar processes in other "moral markets," such as organic food, exploring how the evolution from movement to market impacts activists and enterprises alike.
Download or read book Sacred Capital written by Hunter Price and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic’s fastest growing religious movement and its largest voluntary association. Following the contours of settler expansion, the Methodist Episcopal Church also quickly became the largest denomination in the early American West. With Sacred Capital, Hunter Price resituates the Methodist Episcopal Church as a settler-colonial institution at the convergence of “the Methodist Age” and Jefferson’s “Empire of Liberty.” Price offers a novel interpretation of the Methodist Episcopal Church as a network through which mostly white settlers exchanged news of land and jobs and facilitated financial transactions. Benefiting from Indigenous dispossession and removal policies, settlers made selective, strategic use of the sacred and the secular in their day-to-day interactions to advance themselves and their interests. By analyzing how Methodists acted as settlers while identifying as pilgrims, Price illuminates the ways that ordinary white Americans fulfilled Jefferson’s vision of an Empire of Liberty while reinforcing the inequalities at its core.
Download or read book Kenekuk the Kickapoo Prophet written by Joseph B. Herring and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the Indians whose names we remember were warriors—Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo—men who led their people in a desperate defense of their lands and their way of life. But as Alvin Josephy has written, “Some of the Indians’ greatest patriots died unsung by white men, and because their peoples were also obliterated, or almost so, their names are forgotten.” Kenekuk was one of those unsung patriots. Leader of the Vermillion Band Kickapoos and Potawatomis from the 1820s to 1852, Kenekuk is today little known, even in the Midwest where his people settled. His achievements as the political and religious leader of a small band of peaceful Indians have been largely verlooked. Yet his leadership, which transcended one of the most difficult periods in native American history—that of removal—was no less astute and courageous than that of the most warlike chief, and his teachings continued to guide his people long after his death. In his policies as well as his influence he was unique among American Indians. In this sensitive and revealing biography, Joseph Herring and explores Kenekuk’s rise to power and astute leadership, as well as tracing the evolution of his policy of acculturation. This strategy proved highly effective in protecting Kenekuk’s people against the increasingly complex, intrusive, and hostile white world. In helping his people adjust to white society and retain their lands without resorting to warfare or losing their identity as Indians, the Kickapoo Prophet displayed exceptional leadership, both secular and religious. Unlike the Shawnee Prophet and his brother Tecumseh, whose warlike actions proved disastrous for their people, Kenekuk always stressed peace and outward cooperation with whites. Thus, by the time of his death in 1852, Kenekuk had prepared his people for the challenge of maintaining a separate and unique Indian way of life within a dominant white culture. While other bands disintegrated because they either resisted cultural innovations or assimilated under stress, the Vermillion Kickapoos and Potawatomis prospered.
