The Great Revival : beginnings of the Bible belt /

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Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boles, John B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1996.
Series:Religion in the South ; 1.
Subjects:
Revivals > Southern States.
Réveils (Religion) > États-Unis (Sud)
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Evangelism.
Revivals
Southern States > Church history.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire religieuse.
Southern States
Church history
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The setting
  • The feeling of crisis
  • The theory of providential deliverance
  • Portents of revival
  • Kentucky ablaze
  • The South conquered
  • The changing revival image
  • Homiletics & hymnology
  • A theology of individualism
  • Unity & schism
  • The economic & political thought of Southern revivalism
  • Revivalism & the Southern evangelical mind.

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