[PDF] Evangelizing The South eBook

Author : Monica Najar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190294817

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Although many refer to the American South as the "Bible Belt", the region was not always characterized by a powerful religious culture. In the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, religion-in terms both of church membership and personal piety-was virtually absent from southern culture. The late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, however, witnessed the astonishingly rapid rise of evangelical religion in the Upper South. Within just a few years, evangelicals had spread their beliefs and their fervor, gaining converts and building churches throughout Virginia and North Carolina and into the western regions. But what was it that made evangelicalism so attractive to a region previously uninterested in religion? Monica Najar argues that early evangelicals successfully negotiated the various challenges of the eighteenth-century landscape by creating churches that functioned as civil as well as religious bodies. The evangelical church of the late eighteenth century was the cornerstone of its community, regulating marriages, monitoring prices, arbitrating business, and settling disputes. As the era experienced substantial rifts in the relationship between church and state, the disestablishment of colonial churches paved the way for new formulations of church-state relations. The evangelical churches were well-positioned to provide guidance in uncertain times, and their multiple functions allowed them to reshape many of the central elements of authority in southern society. They assisted in reformulating the lines between the "religious" and "secular" realms, with significant consequences for both religion and the emerging nation-state. Touching on the creation of a distinctive southern culture, the position of women in the private and public arenas, family life in the Old South, the relationship between religion and slavery, and the political culture of the early republic, Najar reveals the history behind a religious heritage that remains a distinguishing mark of American society.

Author : Monica Najar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198042191

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Although many refer to the American South as the "Bible Belt", the region was not always characterized by a powerful religious culture. In the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, religion-in terms both of church membership and personal piety-was virtually absent from southern culture. The late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, however, witnessed the astonishingly rapid rise of evangelical religion in the Upper South. Within just a few years, evangelicals had spread their beliefs and their fervor, gaining converts and building churches throughout Virginia and North Carolina and into the western regions. But what was it that made evangelicalism so attractive to a region previously uninterested in religion? Monica Najar argues that early evangelicals successfully negotiated the various challenges of the eighteenth-century landscape by creating churches that functioned as civil as well as religious bodies. The evangelical church of the late eighteenth century was the cornerstone of its community, regulating marriages, monitoring prices, arbitrating business, and settling disputes. As the era experienced substantial rifts in the relationship between church and state, the disestablishment of colonial churches paved the way for new formulations of church-state relations. The evangelical churches were well-positioned to provide guidance in uncertain times, and their multiple functions allowed them to reshape many of the central elements of authority in southern society. They assisted in reformulating the lines between the "religious" and "secular" realms, with significant consequences for both religion and the emerging nation-state. Touching on the creation of a distinctive southern culture, the position of women in the private and public arenas, family life in the Old South, the relationship between religion and slavery, and the political culture of the early republic, Najar reveals the history behind a religious heritage that remains a distinguishing mark of American society.

Author : Bill Hybels
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310485001

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Not a book of theory or speculation, here is a proven action plan to impacting the spiritual lives of friends, family members, co-workers, and others. Powerful stories and teachings help readers to gain hope that their friends' lives can change, get free from the misconceptions of evangelism, discover a natural approach to communicating their faith, and more.

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781391782324

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Excerpt from A Tract on the Best Mode of Evangelizing the Slaves of the South, in Accordance With the Polity of the Presbyterian Church For the evangelization of the blacks in this country, three methods have been employed. During the infancy of the American colonies, and when but few slaves existed among them, all denominations received African converts into white churches. At this time, no separate organization of the blacks into churches, nor even any distinct buildings for their accommodation were employed. They met with their masters in the same building and sat down With them at the same table of the Lord. This method of evangelization however, is suited only to a state of things in which the slave popa lation is small. Whenever that class of persons increases into an equality with the whites, or outnumbers them, then, either the white congregation must be divided, or the slave part of it set off to itself. The second mode of evangelization is, to provide separate houses for the blacks, to give them a Preacher to themselves, but to extend over them still the government of the parent church. This method has many and decided advantages over the previous one. Where the slaves are placed in galleries to worship with the whites, they feel themselves addressed by the Preacher in only a secondary sense. The sermon is prepared for the whites, is adapted chiefly to the whites, and sometimes can be understood only by them. Singing too, that part of worship in which negroes seem so much to delight is performed by a White choir, while the lips of the slave are hushed in silence either from his ignorance or want of skill in the tunes sung. These evils are all remedied by providing for the blacks separate houses of worship, and by furnishing them with their own Pastor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780828018234

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Reprint of a 1901 booklet giving guidance for doing evangelistic work among Southern Blacks.

Author : Thomas P. Johnston
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0825477573

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Encounter North American evangelism from the Great Awakening to the present day A History of Evangelism in North America guides readers on a tour through circuit riders and tent meetings to campus evangelism and online ministries. Academic research combines with gospel faithfulness and love for the lost in this historical survey. Encountering these prominent evangelism movements will inspire innovation and courage in the call to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. Few Christians recognize the historical backgrounds of various evangelistic ministries, their theological traditions, or their guiding principles. A History of Evangelism in North America explores evangelism methodologies and legacies from the early 1700s to today. Experts deliver current scholarship on twenty-two evangelists and ministries, including the following: John Wesley and itinerant preachers The camp meeting movement The American Bible Society and Bible distribution evangelism The Navigators and personal discipleship Billy Graham and crusade evangelism Campus ministries The Jesus Movement 21st-century evangelistic approaches A History of Evangelism in North America promises to have lasting value for those who study evangelism, missions, Christian history, and the church in North America.

Author : Jay Riley Case
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199912750

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The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of ''World Christianity,'' which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion. What, then, are we to make of the waves of Western missionaries who have, for centuries, been evangelizing in the global South? Were they merely, as many have argued, agents of imperialism out to impose Western values? In An Unpredictable Gospel, Jay Case examines the efforts of American evangelical missionaries in light of this new scholarship. He argues that if they were agents of imperialism, they were poor ones. Western missionaries had a dismal record of converting non-Westerners to Christianity. The ministries that were most successful were those that empowered the local population and adapted to local cultures. In fact, influence often flowed the other way, with missionaries serving as conduits for ideas that shaped American evangelicalism. Case traces these currents and sheds new light on the relationship between Western and non-Western Christianities.

Author : Charles Kelley
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1535908246

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The evangelistic focus of the Southern Baptist Convention has diminished, creating unprecedented challenges. In Fuel the Fire, Chuck Kelley intends to start a conversation. A denomination accustomed to the inevitability of growth is in the grip of decline. By remembering the evangelistic strategies and core convictions that have strengthened the Southern Baptist Convention since its humble beginnings, and by cultivating the theological focus that enhances modern-day evangelistic engagement, readers will find new urgency in carrying out the work of evangelism. Kelley emphasizes that strategies are important; however, our efforts are in vain apart from a stirring of the Holy Spirit.