Download or read book The Erosion of Biblical Certainty written by Michael J. Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to conventional wisdom, by the late 1800s, the image of Bible as a supernatural and infallible text crumbled in the eyes of intellectuals under the assaults of secularizing forces. This book corrects the narrative by arguing that in America, the road to skepticism had already been paved by the Scriptures' most able and ardent defenders.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions written by Andrea Greenwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is a free faith expressed, organised and governed? How are diverse spiritualities and theologies made compatible? What might a religion based in reason and democracy offer today's world? This book will help the reader to understand the contemporary liberal religion of Unitarian Universalism in a historical and global context. Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris challenge the view that the Unitarianism of New England is indigenous and the point from which the religion spread. Relationships between Polish radicals and the English Dissenters existed and the English radicals profoundly influenced the Unitarianism of the nascent United States. Greenwood and Harris also explore the US identity as Unitarian Universalist since a 1961 merger and its current relationship to international congregations, particularly in the context of twentieth-century expansion into Asia.
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Meadville Theological School written by Meadville Theological School and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Early American Philosophers written by John R. Shook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.
Download or read book The Unitarian Controversy written by Conrad Wright and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bitter Freedom written by Suzanne Stone Johnson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand account of evolving race relations in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era Bitter Freedom is an insightful evaluation of the pivotal role of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction in war-torn South Carolina as written by a young bureau agent eager to do his part in rebuilding a divided nation. In early 1866 Major William Stone of the 19th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers, having survived four major Civil War battles and three combat wounds, arrived in South Carolina to assume his duties in the newly formed Freedmen's Bureau. Spanning nearly three years of this service, his recently discovered first-person narrative chronicles his insightful observations on the postwar South and his experiences in carrying out the bureau's efforts in voter registration, education, land reform, civil rights enforcement, and mediation of racial disputes. Stone was diligent in his duties and detailed in his writings, the result of which is a compelling recollection of turbulent race relations in small towns of the upstate surrounding Anderson and along the Savannah River near Aiken. That Stone was the son of a prominent New England abolitionist minister is apparent in his critical commentary on slave culture and in his perceptions of its negative impact on the morality of whites and blacks alike. Likewise his boyhood experiences on a small farm color his assessment of what he viewed as the wastefulness of Southern agricultural methods. Stone's background, combat experiences, and earnest inclination toward public service make for a fascinating vantage point in his vivid descriptions of the poverty, political corruption, racial hatreds, explosive violence, and corrosive animosity toward all things Yankee he witnessed in the defeated South. Yet he was so moved by the possibilities for progress he saw in South Carolina that, after his Freedmen's Bureau service ended, he went on to establish a successful law practice in Charleston and was eventually appointed as the state's attorney general. Edited by his descendants, Stone's recollections remind modern readers of the harsh circumstances and bitter emotions of South Carolinians immediately following the Civil War and of the efforts of some to mend social and economic wounds. The record of service is augmented with an introduction by historian Lou Falkner Williams that sets the writings in the broader context of Reconstruction history.
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Divinity School of Harvard University written by Harvard Divinity School and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Divinity School of Harvard University 1915 written by Harvard Divinity School and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Fletcher Dole Liberal Theology and Reform written by Paul T. Burlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical look at the life and theology of Charles Fletcher Dole. It argues that while Dole’s radical theology was the source of his civic engagement, his iteration of the social gospel was to some extent also shaped and delimited by the socio-economic position he occupied.
Download or read book The T S Eliot Studies Annual written by John D. Morgenstern and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the new edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays. All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, or editor. John D. Morgenstern, General Editor Editorial Advisory Board: Ronald Bush, University of Oxford David E. Chinitz, Loyola University Chicago Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina–Greensboro Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews Frances Dickey, University of Missouri John Haffenden, University of Sheffield Benjamin G. Lockerd, Grand Valley State University Gail McDonald, Goldsmiths, University of London Gabrielle McIntire, Queen’s University Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia Christopher Ricks, Boston University Ronald Schuchard, Emory University Vincent Sherry, Washington University at St. Louis
Download or read book Civil Disobedience in America written by David R. Weber and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's rich heritage of advocating civil disobedience is put into sharp focus in this collection of 46 crucial documents. Arranged chronologically within topical groupings, the selections span the years 1657 to 1973. The range of documents is wide: besides sermons, essays, and speeches, there are two poems, a chapter from a novel, excerpts from a play, a transcript of a public protest meeting, and two segments of testimony given before Congress. The editor has provided a perceptive introduction as well as informative headnotes. Among those represented in the volume are William Ellery Channing, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan B. Anthony, Stokely Carmichael, Albert Einstein, A. P. Randolph, Martin Luther King, Daniel Berrigan, and William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Download or read book The U S Quarterly Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dividing the Faith written by Richard J. Boles and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches Phillis Wheatley was stolen from her family in Senegambia, and, in 1761, slave traders transported her to Boston, Massachusetts, to be sold. She was purchased by the Wheatley family who treated Phillis far better than most eighteenth-century slaves could hope, and she received a thorough education while still, of course, longing for her freedom. After four years, Wheatley began writing religious poetry. She was baptized and became a member of a predominantly white Congregational church in Boston. More than ten years after her enslavement began, some of her poetry was published in London, England, as a book titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. This book is evidence that her experience of enslavement was exceptional. Wheatley remains the most famous black Christian of the colonial era. Though her experiences and accomplishments were unique, her religious affiliation with a predominantly white church was quite ordinary. Dividing the Faith argues that, contrary to the traditional scholarly consensus, a significant portion of northern Protestants worshipped in interracial contexts during the eighteenth century. Yet in another fifty years, such an affiliation would become increasingly rare as churches were by-and-large segregated. Richard Boles draws from the records of over four hundred congregations to scrutinize the factors that made different Christian traditions either accessible or inaccessible to African American and American Indian peoples. By including Indians, Afro-Indians, and black people in the study of race and religion in the North, this research breaks new ground and uses patterns of church participation to illuminate broader social histories. Overall, it explains the dynamic history of racial integration and segregation in northern colonies and states.
Download or read book Bulletin 1908 23 written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Benevolent Deity written by Robert J. Wilson III and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years following the Great Awakening in New England saw a great theological struggle between proponents of Calvinism and the champions of Christian liberty, setting the stage for American Unitarianism. The adherents of Christian liberty, who were branded Arminians by their opponents, were contending for the liberty of the mind and the soul to pursue truth and salvation free from prior restraint. The Arminian movement took shape as a major, quasi-denominational force in New England under the guidance of particular clergymen, most notably Ebenezer Gay, minister of the First Parish in Hingham, Massachusetts, from 1718 to 1787. Despite his ubiquitous presence in the history of Arminianism, however, Gay has been a historical enigma. Robert J. Wilson's purpose in this biography is to trace Gay's long and fascinating intellectual odyssey against the evolving social, political, and economic life of eighteenth-century Hingham as well as the religious history of the coastal region between Boston and Plymouth.
Download or read book The United States Quarterly Book Review written by Joseph Patrick Blickensderfer and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel Herald and Universalist Review New Series T Fisk Editor Vol 1 No 1 26 3 Jan 19 Dec 1829 written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
