Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conference
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Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: David S. Monroe
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Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Methodist Episcopal Church
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Category : Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conferences
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Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conference
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: Lucas Volkman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190248335
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. Volkman examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of the slaveholding border state of Missouri. He maintains that congregational and local denominational ruptures before, during, and after the Civil War were central to the crisis of the Union in that state from 1837 to 1876. The schisms were interlinked religious, legal, constitutional, and political developments rife with implications for the transformation of evangelicalism and the United States from the late 1830s to the end of Reconstruction. The evangelical disruptions in Missouri were grounded in divergent moral and political understandings of slavery, abolitionism, secession, and disloyalty. Publicly articulated by factional litigation over church property and a combative evangelical print culture, the schisms were complicated by the race, class, and gender dynamics that marked the contending interests of white middle-class women and men, rural church-goers, and African American congregants. These ruptures forged antagonistic northern and southern evangelical worldviews that increased antebellum sectarian strife and violence, energized the notorious guerilla conflict that gripped Missouri through the Civil War, and fueled post-war vigilantism between opponents and proponents of emancipation. The schisms produced the interrelated religious, legal and constitutional controversies that shaped pro-and anti-slavery evangelical contention before 1861, wartime Radical rule, and the rise and fall of Reconstruction.

Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. General Conference
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Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Author: Mark R. Teasdale
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630873276
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Powerful ideas have the capacity to inspire great good. They also have the capacity to prompt unspeakable acts of evil. The ideas of "America" and "the gospel" have been used for both. The situation was no different when the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) brought these two ideas together in its evangelistic work from 1860 to 1920, including during the Civil War and the First World War. Methodist Evangelism, American Salvation traces the MEC's home missions among African Americans and whites in the South; among Native Americans, Mexicans, and white settlers in the West; and among newly arrived immigrants, their children, the poor, and the rich in the East's burgeoning cities. It shows the innovative and courageous work of the MEC to improve the quality of life for these most marginalized populations in the United States. It also shows the fear the MEC had that these populations would overthrow American civilization if they did not conform to the values held by white, middle-class, native-born Americans.

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Vanderbilt University
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Languages : en
Pages : 86

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