Author: William Buell Sprague
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ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Annals of the American Pulpit: Presbyterian. 1859
Author: William Buell Sprague
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Annals of the American Pulpit: Presbyterian. 1859
Author: William Buell Sprague
Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Annals of the American Pulpit: Presbyterian. 1859
Author: William Buell Sprague
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Annals of the American Pulpit, Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen of Various Denominations: Presbyterian. 1859
Author: William Buell Sprague
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
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The Richmond Theater Fire
Author: Meredith Henne Baker
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080714374X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of a melodramatic tale of bandits, ghosts, and murder, a small fire kindled behind the backdrop. Within minutes, it raced to the ceiling timbers and enveloped the audience in flames. The tragic Richmond Theater fire would inspire a national commemoration and become its generation's defining disaster. A vibrant and bustling city, Richmond was synonymous with horse races, gambling, and frivolity. The gruesome fire amplified the capital's reputation for vice and led to an upsurge in antitheater criticism that spread throughout the country and across the Atlantic. Clerics in both America and abroad urged national repentance and denounced the stage, a sentiment that nearly destroyed theatrical entertainment in Richmond for decades. Local churches, by contrast, experienced a rise in attendance and became increasingly evangelical. In The Richmond Theater Fire, the first book about the event and its aftermath, Meredith Henne Baker explores a forgotten catastrophe and its wide societal impact. The story of transformation comes alive through survivor accounts of slaves, actresses, ministers, and statesmen. Investigating private letters, diaries, and sermons, among other rare or unpublished documents, Baker views the event and its outcomes through the fascinating lenses of early nineteenth-century theater, architecture, and faith, and reveals a rich and vital untold story from America's past.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080714374X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of a melodramatic tale of bandits, ghosts, and murder, a small fire kindled behind the backdrop. Within minutes, it raced to the ceiling timbers and enveloped the audience in flames. The tragic Richmond Theater fire would inspire a national commemoration and become its generation's defining disaster. A vibrant and bustling city, Richmond was synonymous with horse races, gambling, and frivolity. The gruesome fire amplified the capital's reputation for vice and led to an upsurge in antitheater criticism that spread throughout the country and across the Atlantic. Clerics in both America and abroad urged national repentance and denounced the stage, a sentiment that nearly destroyed theatrical entertainment in Richmond for decades. Local churches, by contrast, experienced a rise in attendance and became increasingly evangelical. In The Richmond Theater Fire, the first book about the event and its aftermath, Meredith Henne Baker explores a forgotten catastrophe and its wide societal impact. The story of transformation comes alive through survivor accounts of slaves, actresses, ministers, and statesmen. Investigating private letters, diaries, and sermons, among other rare or unpublished documents, Baker views the event and its outcomes through the fascinating lenses of early nineteenth-century theater, architecture, and faith, and reveals a rich and vital untold story from America's past.
Catalogue of the Genealogical and Historical Library of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York
Author: National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Theological Medium
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Category : Presbyterianism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Presbyterianism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Calvin Morgan McClung Historical Collection of Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts, Pictures and Maps Relating to Early Western Travel and the History and Genealogy of Tennessee and Other Southern States
Author: Lawson McGhee Library (Knoxville, Tenn.)
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Annals of the American Pulpit: Presbyterian. 1859
Author: William Buell Sprague
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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A New History of the Sermon
Author: Robert Ellison
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004189467
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
The latest installment in Brill’s A New History of the Sermon series offers innovative studies of sacred rhetoric in the nineteenth century. The three sections—Theory and Theology, Sermon and Society in the British Empire, and Sermon and Society in America—contain a total of sixteen essays on such topics as biblical criticism, Charles Darwin, the Oxford Movement, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), English Catholicism, sermon-novels, and the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic. Multiple traditions are represented, including the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, English nonconformity, Judaism, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, making this a compilation that will appeal to a wide range of preachers, historians, literary scholars, and students of the rhetorical tradition. Contributors are Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Thomas J. Carmody, Dawn Coleman, Robert H. Ellison, Joseph Evans, Keith A. Francis, Brian Jackson, Dorothy Lander, Thomas H. Olbricht, Carol Poster, Mirela Saim, Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Bob Tennant, David M. Timmerman, Tamara S. Wagner, and John Wolffe.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004189467
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
The latest installment in Brill’s A New History of the Sermon series offers innovative studies of sacred rhetoric in the nineteenth century. The three sections—Theory and Theology, Sermon and Society in the British Empire, and Sermon and Society in America—contain a total of sixteen essays on such topics as biblical criticism, Charles Darwin, the Oxford Movement, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), English Catholicism, sermon-novels, and the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic. Multiple traditions are represented, including the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, English nonconformity, Judaism, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, making this a compilation that will appeal to a wide range of preachers, historians, literary scholars, and students of the rhetorical tradition. Contributors are Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Thomas J. Carmody, Dawn Coleman, Robert H. Ellison, Joseph Evans, Keith A. Francis, Brian Jackson, Dorothy Lander, Thomas H. Olbricht, Carol Poster, Mirela Saim, Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Bob Tennant, David M. Timmerman, Tamara S. Wagner, and John Wolffe.