Religion and violence in early American Methodism : taking the kingdom by force /

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Early American Methodists commonly described their religious lives as great wars with sin and claimed they wrestled with God and Satan who assaulted them in terrible ways. Carefully examining a range of sources, including sermons, letters, autobiographies, journals, and hymns, Jeffrey Williams explo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Jeffrey, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Religion in North America.
Temas:
1700-1899
Methodist Church > History > 18th century.
Methodist Church > History > 19th century.
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Language and languages > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Église méthodiste > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Église méthodiste > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Violence > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Langage et langues > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
RELIGION > Christianity > Methodist.
Methodist Church.
United States > Church history > 18th century.
United States > Church history > 19th century.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse > 18e siècle.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse > 19e siècle.
United States.
Church history.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
  • Introduction
  • Fighting the good fight
  • Contesting the good fight : warfare and the American Revolution
  • The power to "kill and make alive" : the spiritual battle and the body in post-Revolutionary America
  • Beating their plowshares into swords : Methodists and violence in antebellum America
  • Methodist respectability and the decline of the good fight for salvation
  • The Christian's warfare and social violence.

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