[PDF] Beams Of Light On Early Methodism In America eBook

Author : Ezekiel Cooper
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2000
Category : African American Methodists
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An account of the Methodist Church in antebellum America, most of the material comes from the personal records of Ezekiel Cooper, an itinerant preacher active in the latter part of the 18th century. It uses the personal experiences of Cooper, as recorded in his letters and personal diaries, to describe the status and activities of the Methodist Church in New Jersey, Baltimore, Annapolis, Alexandria (Virginia), Charleston (South Carolina), Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Wilmington, Delaware. Events described include various denominational conferences and public reactions to church activities such as revivals. Also includes a chapter on the printing of Methodist books and an addendum on the Methodist Church's opposition to slavery.

Author : Ezekiel Cooper
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2015-03-30
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ISBN : 9781511513449

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THIS work was written for the purpose of giving the student of the history of the Methodist Episcopal Church facts concerning her early years that are essential to a clear understanding of them. These facts have been gathered from the documents, letters, tracts, and diary of that venerable man of God, Rev. Ezekiel Cooper, and after his decease transmitted to his nephew and heir at law, the honored Rev. Ignatius T. Cooper, D.D., late of Camden, Delaware, who held them until April, 1884, when he was called to join his uncle in the courts above, leaving the papers hereof spoken in the hands of his son, Ezekiel W. Cooper, M.D., also of Camden, who now holds them in possession.

Author : George A. Phoebus
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2014-03
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ISBN : 9781498046640

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1887 Edition.

Author : Ezekiel Cooper
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Page : 358 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2017-06
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ISBN : 9783337122072

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Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America - Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents and... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : George A. Phoebus
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 2014-03
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ISBN : 9781497857261

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1887 Edition.

Author : Russell E. Richey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199359636

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Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic outreach. Methodism in the American Forest explores the ways in which Methodist preachers interacted with and utilized the American woodland, and the role camp meetings played in the denomination's spread across the country. Half a century before they made themselves such a home in the woods, the people and preachers learned the hard way that only a fool would adhere to John Wesley's mandate for preaching in fields of the New World. Under the blazing American sun, Methodist preachers sought and found a better outdoor sanctuary for large gatherings: under the shade of great oaks, a natural cathedral where they held forth with fervid sermons. The American forests, argues Russell E. Richey, served the preachers in several important ways. Like a kind of Gethesemane, the remote, garden-like solitude provided them with a place to seek counsel from the Holy Spirit. They also saw the forest as a desolate wilderness, and a means for them to connect with Israel's years after the Exodus and Jesus's forty days in the desert after his baptism by John. The dauntless preachers slashed their way through, following America's expanding settlement, and gradually sacralizing American woodlands as cathedral, confessional, and spiritual challenge-as shady grove, as garden, and as wilderness. The threefold forest experience became a Methodist standard. The meeting of Methodism's basic governing body, the quarterly conference, brought together leadership of all levels. The event stretched to two days in length and soon great crowds were drawn by the preaching and eventually the sacraments that were on offer. Camp meetings, if not a Methodist invention, became the movement's signature, a development that Richey tracks throughout the years that Methodism matured, to become a central denomination in America's religious landscape.

Author : Jeffrey Williams
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253004233

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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 explores this violent aspect of American religious life and thought. Williams exposes Methodism's insistence that warfare was an inevitable part of Christian life and necessary for any person who sought God's redemption. He reveals a complex relationship between religion and violence, showing how violent expression helped to provide context and meaning to Methodist thought and practice, even as Methodist religious life was shaped by both peaceful and violent social action.

Author : William Henry Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780842022279

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