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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Utica Christian Repository
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Pages : 404
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The Utica Christian Repository
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Christian Magazine
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Sacred Borders
Author: David Holland
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019975361X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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"Why," an exasperated Jonathan Edwards asked, "can't we be contented with. . . the canon of Scripture?" Edwards posed this query to the religious enthusiasts of his own generation, but he could have just as appropriately put it to people across the full expanse of early American history.In the minds of her critics, Anne Hutchinson's heresies threatened to produce "a new Bible." Ethan Allen insisted that a revelation which spoke to every circumstance of life would require "a Bible of monstrous size." When the African-American prophetess Rebecca Jackson embarked on a spiritual journey toward Shakerism, she dreamt of a home in which she could find multiple books of scripture. Orestes Brownson explained to his skeptical contemporaries that the idea drawing him to Catholicism was the prospect of an "ever enlarging volume" of inspiration. Early Americans of every color and creed repeatedly confronted the boundaries of scripture. Some fought to open the canon. Some worked to keep it closed.Sacred Borders vividly depicts the boundaries of the biblical canon as a battleground on which a diverse group of early Americans contended over their differing versions of divine truth. Puritans, deists, evangelicals, liberals, Shakers, Mormons, Catholics, Seventh-day Adventists, and Transcendentalists defended widely varying positions on how to define the borders of scripture. Carefully exploring the history of these scriptural boundary wars, Holland offers an important new take on the religious cultures of early America.He presents a colorful cast of characters-including the likes of Franklin and Emerson along with more obscure figures--who confronted the intellectual tensions surrounding the canon question, such as that between cultural authority and democratic freedom, and between timeless truth and historical change. To reconstruct these sacred borders is to gain a new understanding of the mental world in which early Americans went about their lives and created their nation.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019975361X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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"Why," an exasperated Jonathan Edwards asked, "can't we be contented with. . . the canon of Scripture?" Edwards posed this query to the religious enthusiasts of his own generation, but he could have just as appropriately put it to people across the full expanse of early American history.In the minds of her critics, Anne Hutchinson's heresies threatened to produce "a new Bible." Ethan Allen insisted that a revelation which spoke to every circumstance of life would require "a Bible of monstrous size." When the African-American prophetess Rebecca Jackson embarked on a spiritual journey toward Shakerism, she dreamt of a home in which she could find multiple books of scripture. Orestes Brownson explained to his skeptical contemporaries that the idea drawing him to Catholicism was the prospect of an "ever enlarging volume" of inspiration. Early Americans of every color and creed repeatedly confronted the boundaries of scripture. Some fought to open the canon. Some worked to keep it closed.Sacred Borders vividly depicts the boundaries of the biblical canon as a battleground on which a diverse group of early Americans contended over their differing versions of divine truth. Puritans, deists, evangelicals, liberals, Shakers, Mormons, Catholics, Seventh-day Adventists, and Transcendentalists defended widely varying positions on how to define the borders of scripture. Carefully exploring the history of these scriptural boundary wars, Holland offers an important new take on the religious cultures of early America.He presents a colorful cast of characters-including the likes of Franklin and Emerson along with more obscure figures--who confronted the intellectual tensions surrounding the canon question, such as that between cultural authority and democratic freedom, and between timeless truth and historical change. To reconstruct these sacred borders is to gain a new understanding of the mental world in which early Americans went about their lives and created their nation.
Cradle of the Middle Class
Author: Mary P. Ryan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521274036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865. Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521274036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865. Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles.
Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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On the Development of American Literature from 1815 to 1833
Author: William B. Cairns
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Philology and Literature Series
Author: University of Wisconsin
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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The Literary and Theological Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Literary and Theological Review
Author: Leonard Woods
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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