Download or read book I Am Jesus The Story of Jesus of Kneeland written by and published by Ron Hagg. This book was released on with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesus of Kneeland written by Ron Ramsay Hagg and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesus of Kneeland written by Ron Hagg and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus of Kneeland Humorous Fiction Opening sentence: Chapter one. ..". And God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son . . ." This worried Happy." Jesus of Kneeland is the odyssey of a young man. His parents, Happy and Breeze, believe they have given birth to Jesus, the savior, who has returned to earth. We follow this outrageous adventure through a bizarre series of events such as: getting arrested for overturning every bit of furniture and creating havoc at an IRS office, being represented by Wanda Wright of Tabloid TV, ("In this day and age Jesus will need an agent, and I'm that person."), to appearing on the Reverend Oral B. Mint's Glittering Gospel Hour in the Glittering Green Glass Cathedral in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Heart of the Heartland. Our naive young man, Jesus, is pulled in many directions by those who want to use him for their own ends. Countless scenes and turns of phrases make you smile and laugh out loud. The prevailing mood throughout is light hearted and tongue-in-cheek, making for a quick, smooth read, and very enjoyable story. Jesus of Kneeland is a wonderfully satirical take on power, money, and 'mega-Christianity'. Best of all, the reader really isn't sure how it will all end. Sit back and enjoy the skewering of the hypocrisy we see every day. Jesus of Kneeland is an insightful look at contemporary American society and is a unique book-one of a kind."
Download or read book A People So Favored of God written by George W. Harper and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for all those with an interest in New England Puritanism, American evangelicalism, the history of revivalism, or the history of pastoral ministry.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Defence of Abner Kneeland Charged with Blasphemy written by Abner Kneeland and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Hampshire Churches Comprising Histories of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in the State with Notices of Other Denominations Etc written by Robert F. LAWRENCE (Congregational Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Truth and Privilege written by Lyndsay Campbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study analyzes the evolution of libel law in Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, in the crucible of conflicts over democratic institution-building, gender roles, slavery and other religious and social reform movements. It demonstrates how individuals shaped the law, as they navigated societal change and fought with their neighbors.
Download or read book Religion and American Law written by Paul Finkelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book D M Bennett the Truth Seeker written by Roderick Bradford and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818-1882) was nineteenth-century America''s most controversial publisher and free-speech martyr. Bennett founded the "blasphemous" New York periodical The Truth Seeker in 1873, and his publications were censored and prohibited from newsstands long before the expression "banned in Boston" was heard. In less than a decade, the former Shaker and self-described Thomas Paine infidel became the most successful publisher of freethought literature in America - perhaps the world. Mark Twain, Clarence Darrow, and Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," were only a few of the illustrious freethinkers who subscribed to the periodical devoted to "science, morals, freethought and human happiness." But Bennett''s opposition to dogmatic religion and puritanical obscenity laws so infuriated Anthony Comstock, the U.S. Post Office''s "special agent" and self-proclaimed "weeder in God''s garden," that the freethinking publisher was eventually prosecuted, subjected to a controversial and widely publicized trial, and finally imprisoned.Based on original sources and extensively researched, this in-depth yet accessible biography of D.M. Bennett offers a fascinating glimpse into the turbulent period of late nineteenth-century America-the Gilded Age, a time when our nation was controlled by pious politicians, powerful manufacturers, and censorious clergymen. Roderick Bradford follows Bennett''s evolution from a devout Shaker to an unremitting skeptic and America''s most iconoclastic publisher. He details the circumstances that led to Bennett''s historically significant New York obscenity trial and the monumental, though ultimately unsuccessful, petition campaign for a pardon. This was the largest protest of its kind in the nineteenthcentury and one that went all the way to the White House. Bradford also investigates Bennett''s prominent role in the National Liberal League, his interactions with leading suffragists and the National Defense Association (a forerunner of the ACLU), and his flirtation with spiritualism and theosophy.Roderick Bradford has written a valuable historical contribution, a long-overdue tribute to a free-speech champion, and a colorful depiction of memorable characters and events during a period of great change in American history.
Download or read book The American Deists written by Kerry S. Walters and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging carved-in-stone tenets of Christianity, deism began sprouting in colonial America in the early eighteenth century, was flourishing nicely by the American Revolution, and for all intents and purposes was dead by 1811. Despite its hasty demise, deism left a theological legacy. Christian sensibility would never be quite the same. Bringing together the works of six major American deists—Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine, Elihu Palmer, and Philip Frenau—an dthe Frechman Comte de Volney, whose writings greatly influenced the American deists, Kerry Walters has created the fullest analysis yet of deism and rational religion in colonial and early America. In addition to presenting a chronological collection of several works by each author, he provides a description of deism’s historical roots, its major themes, its social and political implications, and the reasons for its eventual demise as a movement. Essential readings from the three major deistic periodicals of the period—Temple of Reason, Prospect, and the Theophilanthropist—also are included in the volume. This is the first time they have been reprinted since their original publication. American deism is more than merely an antiquated philosophical position possessing only historical interest, Walters contends. Its search for a religion based upon the ideals of reason, nature, and humanitarianism, rather than the blind faith, scriptural inerrancy, and miracles preached by Christian churches at the time, continues to offer insight of real significance.
Download or read book Bizarre Notes and Queries a Monthly Magazine of History Folk lore Mathematics Mysticism Art Science Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservative Revolutionaries written by John S. Oakes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston Congregationalist ministers Charles Chauncy (1705-87) and Jonathan Mayhew (1720-66) were significant political as well as religious leaders in colonial and revolutionary New England. Scholars have often stressed their influence on major shifts in New England theology, from traditional Calvinism to Arminianism and, ultimately, to universalism and Unitarianism. They have also portrayed Mayhew as an influential preacher, whose works helped shape American revolutionary ideology, and Chauncy as an active leader of the patriot cause. Through a deeply contextualized re-examination of the two ministers as "men of their times," John S. Oakes offers a fresh, comparative interpretation of how their religious and political views changed and interacted over decades. The result is a thoroughly revised reading of Chauncy's and Mayhew's most innovative ideas. Conservative Revolutionaries also unearths strongly traditionalist elements in their belief systems, centering on their shared commitment to a dissenting worldview based on the ideals of their Protestant New England and British heritage. Oakes concludes with a provocative exploration of how the shifting theological and political positions of these two "conservative revolutionaries" may have helped redefine prevailing notions of human identity, capability, and destiny.
Download or read book On Emerson written by Edwin Harrison Cady and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The fifteen essays on Emerson, reprinted here, were published inAmerican Literaturefrom 1937 to 1986 and reveal the continuity of that journal’s interest in studies of literary influence, textual scholarship, and intellectual history. As this volume reveals, its editorial standards for scholarship have contributed to the publication of essays that have endured the winds of fashion.”—Choice
Download or read book The New Hampshire Churches written by Robert Fowler Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations on Two Epistles responsive of A Kneeland to my Letter refuting the inference of Universalism from the benevolence of God etc written by Roswell JUDSON and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Address to the People of Massachusetts written by Benjamin Dole and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An American Bible written by Paul C. Gutjahr and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An American Bible is an extremely compelling piece of cultural history that succeeds in making rich rather than schematic sense of the major dramas that lay behind the production of over 1,700 different American editions of the Bible in the century after the American Revolution. Gutjahr's book is especially powerful in demonstrating how nineteenth-century efforts to purge the Bible of textual and translational impurities in search of an 'authentic' text led ironically to the emergence of entirely new gospels like the Book of Mormon and the massive fictionalized literature dealing with the life of Christ." --Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University During the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, American publishing experienced unprecedented, exponential growth. An emerging market economy, widespread religious revival, educational reforms, and innovations in print technology worked together to create a culture increasingly formed and framed by the power of print. At the center of this new culture was the Bible, the book that has been called "the best seller" in American publishing history. Yet it is important to realize that the Bible in America was not a simple, uniform entity. First printed in the United States during the American Revolution, the Bible underwent many revisions, translations, and changes in format as different editors and publishers appropriated it to meet a wide range of changing ideological and economic demands. This book examines how many different constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the Bible the preeminent text in the United States as the country's print marketplace experienced explosive growth. The author shows how these heated battles had profound consequences for many American cultural practices and forms of printed material. By exploring how publishers, clergymen, politicians, educators, and lay persons met the threat that new printed material posed to the dominance of the Bible by changing both its form and its contents, the author reveals the causes and consequences of mutating God's supposedly immutable Word.
