[PDF] Early Revivals In South Australia eBook

Author : Robert Evans
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9780994520319

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Assembling details of Evangelical Revivals in South Australia. 1835 to 1885.

Author : Brian J. Chalmers
Publisher :
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Evangelicalism
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Methodism was the most vigorous religious group in South Australia with the largest body of regular church attenders and Sunday school enrolments. A handful of Methodists were present at the commencement of the colony in 1836. By 1900, self-described Methodists comprised 25 per cent of the state's population, and hovered around the same figure through to 1939. This thesis explores the contribution of revivalism to conversionary growth and institutional expansion in the period from 1838, with the first recorded religious revival, to 1939. It results from a conviction that the study of revivalism within Methodism has received too little attention from historians. It is argued in this thesis that revivalism provided the Methodist churches with an effective methodology for conversionary growth in the quest for 'vital religion' - a religion of the heart. This study includes a chronology of recorded revival activities. Collation of the evidence has depended in large part on Steve Latham's taxonomy of revival. His six distinguishing forms of revival events provided the methodological framework for arranging and categorising the relevant information. The narrative includes a selective utilisation of both statistics and topics relevant to the argument. In addition, an 'Annual Conversion Index' locates each revival within its denominational context, while an examination of the number of reported conversions against membership data also enables an assessment of the contribution of revivalism to denominational growth. The main sources for reported conversions, membership, and narrative information were denominational periodicals and church statistics. Part One examines the place of revivalism in the initial colonial period from 1838 to 1865, with particular reference to the foundational elements within South Australian Methodism which aided revivalism. Part Two covers the period from 1866 to 1913. This examines the contribution of specialist revivalists of international or Australian origin who conducted large-scale missions in Adelaide alongside the revivals that occurred in rural and suburban Methodist circuits as the result of local evangelistic preaching. Part Three, from 1914 to 1939, examines how traditional revivalism adapted to various challenges, both intellectual and internal. There was diminished revival activity in the inter-war period. The thesis demonstrates that revivalism was far more extensive than previously thought, and was a very significant factor in the numerical growth of South Australian Methodism during the period studied.

Author : David Bebbington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191611794

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Revivals are outbursts of religious enthusiasm in which there are numerous conversions. In this book the phenomenon of revival is set in its broad historical and historiographical context. David Bebbington provides detailed case-studies of awakenings that took place between 1841 and 1880 in Britain, North America and Australia, showing that the distinctive features of particular revivals were the result less of national differences than of denominational variations. These revivals occurred in many places across the globe, but revealed the shared characteristics of evangelical Protestantism. Bebbington explores the preconditions of revival, giving attention to the cultural setting of each episode as well as the form of piety displayed by the participants. No single cause can be assigned to the awakenings, but one of the chief factors behind them was occupational structure and striking instances of death were often a precipitant. Ideas were far more involved in these events than historians have normally supposed, so that the case-studies demonstrate some of the main patterns in religious thought at a popular level during the Victorian period. Laymen and women played a disproportionate part in their promotion and converts were usually drawn in large numbers from the young. There was a trend over time away from traditional spontaneity towards more organised methods sometimes entailing interdenominational co-operation.

Author : Edwin A. Curnow
Publisher :
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2015-10-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780980458077

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Story of Bible Christian ministers and lay people, many of whom left Cornwall and Devon in England to settle in South Australia. Book describes establishment of many country chapels and lists names of early settlers. Generously illustrated and with indices of people, places and ships. Text 640 pp.

Author : Anthony Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429659849

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The volumes in this set, originally published between 1999 and 2003, draw together early works in social theory by leading sociologist Anthony Elliott. The collection covers some of his major works in the field of social theory, with a paticular focus on psychoanalysis, and social theorists within the area of sociology. The works in this set make accessible previously unavailable works from the early stages of Anthony Elliott's ongoing and prolific career to date.

Author : Kurt Mahlburg
Publisher : Australian Heart Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1922480339

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Discover Australia’s Great Awakenings Australia is a nation forged in the furnace of revival. Long forgotten, Australia’s Spirit-filled history comes to life in Great Southland Revival. Discover how the flame of Pentecost spread from the book of Acts all the way to the South Pacific. Journey on convict ships and city trams, to goldfields, outback communities and far-flung islands transformed by the gospel. Most of all, be inspired that God longs to revive the church, sweep multitudes into His kingdom, and renew our world once again.

Author : Valerie Fildes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1135050163

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First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments, institutions and individuals in those countries. Contributors display how policy and practice have been shaped by the structure of maternity services, nationalism, the conflict of colonization and cultural factors. In doing so, they illustrate how welfare policy and funding were moulded throughout the world in the times considered.

Author : Peter Groenewegen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317831675

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First published in 1990, this book presents an original and comprehensive overview of Australian economic thought. The authors stress, by way of introduction, the many important innovative contributions Australian economists have made to thought worldwide. As the argument develops, the work of major figures is discussed in detail in addition to the role of different journals and economic societies.