[PDF] The Wesleys And The Anglican Mission To Georgia 1735 1738 eBook

Author : John Thomas Scott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1611463114

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The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735-1738 considers the fascinating early history of a small group of men commissioned by trustees in England to spread Protestantism both to new settlers and indigenous people living in Georgia. Four minister-missionaries arrived in 1736, but after only two years these men detached themselves from the colonial enterprise, and the Mission effectively ended in 1738. Tracing the rise and fall of this endeavor, Scott’s study focuses on key figures in the history of the Mission including the layman, Charles Delamotte, and the ministers, John and Charles Wesley, Benjamin Ingham, and George Whitefield. In Scott’s innovative historical approach, neglected archival sources generate a detailed narrative account that reveals how these men’s personal experiences and personal networks had a significant impact on the inner-workings and trajectory of the Mission. The original group of missionaries who traveled to Georgia was composed of men already bound together by family relations, friendships, and shared lines of mentorship. Once in the colony, the missionaries’ prospects altered as they developed close ties with other missionaries (including a group of Moravians) and other settlers (John Wesley returned to England after his romantic relationship with Sophy Hopkey soured). Structures of imperialism, class, and race underlying colonial ideology informed the Anglican Mission in the era of trustee Georgia. The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia enriches this historical picture by illuminating how a different set of intricacies, rooted in personal dynamics, was also integral to the events of this period. In Scott’s study, the history of the expansive eighteenth-century Atlantic world emerges as a riveting account of life unfolding on a local and individual level.

Author : Achim Kopp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 1611463572

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This volume contains the journals of four Moravians who traveled to and lived in the colony of Georgia between 1734 and 1737. The journals describe the passage to Georgia, life in early Georgia, and Moravian religious practices, and suggested reasons for the eventual abandonment of the Georgia Moravian settlement.

Author : Sean McGever
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 151400416X

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Setting Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitfield into their own contexts, Sean McGever tells the true story of these men's deeply compromised relationship to slavery. More than just a history, this book is an invitation to examine our own legacies and to take ownership of our heritage and our own part in the story.

Author : Claire Bellerjeau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493052489

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In January 1785, a young African American woman named Elizabeth (Liss) was put on board the Lucretia in New York Harbor, bound for Charleston, where she would be sold to her fifth enslaver in just twenty-two years. Leaving behind a small child she had little hope of ever seeing again, Elizabeth was faced with the stark reality of being sold south to a life quite different from any she had known before. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of the first family she was enslaved by, would locate her, safeguard her child, and return her to New York—nor that Robert, one of George Washington's most trusted spies, had joined an anti-slavery movement. As Robert and Elizabeth’s story unfolds, prominent Revolutionary figures cross their path, including Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Jupiter Hammon, John André, and John Adams, as well as participants in the Boston Massacre, the Sons of Liberty, the Battle of Long Island, Franklin’s Paris negotiations, and the Benedict Arnold treason plot. Elizabeth's journey brings a new perspective to America's founding—that of an enslaved Black woman seeking personal liberty in a country fighting for its own. The 2023 paperback edition includes a new chapter highlighting recent discoveries about Elizabeth's freedom and later life.

Author : Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2024-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1087737028

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Thomas S. Kidd presents a global history of the Christian church in the modern age. Christian History, Volume 2: From the Reformation to the Present provides a composite picture of important, influential, and representative Christian beliefs, thinkers, activists, trends, and practices from about 1500 to the present day. In a highly readable style, Kidd covers the events and figures from the Reformation, the Great Awakenings, higher criticism, and the culture wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This volume also covers the global nature of God’s church by examining historical global traditions as well as the recent the demographic shift of active Christian communities to the global South. In addition to the major theologians, movements, and events of the period, Kidd highlights the everyday Christian experience through the centuries, including accounts of ordinary men and women who experience conversion, live sacrificially for the gospel, or endure persecution. A lively, engaging, and readable text, Christian History, Volume 2: From the Reformation to the Present will become a staple text for students and professors alike.

Author : Anna M. Lawrence
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0812204174

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Originally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the beginning, though, Methodists constituted a dissenting religious group whose ideas about sexuality, marriage, and family were very different from those of their contemporaries. Focusing on the Methodist notion of family that cut across biological ties, One Family Under God speaks to historical debates over the meaning of family and how the nuclear family model developed over the eighteenth century. Historian Anna M. Lawrence demonstrates that Methodists adopted flexible definitions of affection and allegiance and emphasized extended communal associations that enabled them to incorporate people outside the traditional boundaries of family. They used the language of romantic, ecstatic love to describe their religious feelings and the language of the nuclear family to describe their bonds to one another. In this way, early Methodism provides a useful lens for exploring eighteenth-century modes of family, love, and authority, as Methodists grappled with the limits of familial and social authority in their extended religious family. Methodists also married and formed conjugal families within this larger spiritual framework. Evangelical modes of marriage called for careful, slow courtships, and often marriages happened later in life and produced fewer children. Religious views of the family offered alternatives to traditional coupling and marriage—through celibacy, spiritual service, and the idea of finding one's true spiritual match, which both challenged the role of parental authority within marriage-making and accelerated the turn within the larger society toward romantic marriage. By examining the language and practice of evangelical sexuality and family, One Family Under God highlights how the Methodist movement in the eighteenth century was central to the rise of romantic marriage and the formation of the modern family.

Author : Steven David Bruns
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532614756

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John Wesley created an independent Methodist Church in 1784 in order to provide the sacraments to its members in America. The system created, however, did not seem to have the same understanding of the Lord's Supper that Wesley had, and it did not allow for the frequency to receive Communion that Wesley desired. Steven Bruns analyzes the writings of Wesley and those early Methodists involved in this process to discover what actually happened and why. In this book, Bruns looks at figures such as Francis Asbury, Freeborn Garrettson, Thomas Coke, William Waters, and many other leading figures of American Methodism to uncover their understanding of God's grace, the Lord's Supper, and the nature of the Church.

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310599849

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A Legacy of Preaching, Two-Volume Set--Apostles to the Present Day explores the history and development of preaching through a biographical and theological examination of its most important preachers. Instead of teaching the history of preaching from the perspective of movements and eras, each contributor tells the story of a particular preacher in history, allowing these preachers from the past to come alive and instruct us through their lives, theologies, and methods of preaching. Each chapter introduces readers to a key figure in the history of preaching, followed by an analysis of the theological views that shaped their preaching, their methodology of sermon preparation and delivery, and an appraisal of the significant contributions they have made to the history of preaching. This diverse collection of familiar and lesser-known individuals provides a detailed and fascinating look at what it has meant to communicate the gospel over the past two thousand years. By looking at how the gospel has been communicated over time and across different cultures, pastors, scholars, and homiletics students can enrich their own understanding and practice of preaching for application today. Volume One covers the period from the apostles to the Puritans and profiles thirty preachers including: Origen of Alexandria by Stephen O. Presley John Chrysostom by Paul A. Hartog Augustine of Hippo by Edward L. Smither Gregory the Great by W. Brian Shelton Bernard of Clairvaux by Elizabeth Hoare Francis of Assisi by Timothy D. Holder Saint Bonaventure by G. R. Evans Meister Eckhart by Daniel Farca? John Huss by Mark A. Howell Martin Luther by Robert Kolb John Calvin by Anthony N. S. Lane Jonathan Edwards by Gerald R. McDermott John Wesley by Michael Pasquarello III George Whitefield by Bill Curtis and Timothy McKnight and many more Volume Two covers the period from the Enlightenment to the present day and profiles thirty-one preachers including: Catherine Booth by Roger J. Green Charles Haddon Spurgeon by Thomas J. Nettles Henry Ward Beecher by Michael Duduit John Albert Broadus by Hershael W. York D. L. Moody by Gregg L. Quiggle Billy Sunday by Kristopher K. Barnett Karl Barth by William H. Willimon Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Keith W. Clements D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones by Carl Trueman John Stott by Greg R. Scharf Harry Emerson Fosdick by Dwayne Milioni Aimee Semple McPherson by Aaron Friesen Gardner C. Taylor by Alfonza W. Fulwood and Robert Smith Jr. Billy Graham by John N. Akers Martin Luther King Jr. by Alfonza W. Fulwood, Dennis R. McDonald, and Anil Sook Deo J. I. Packer by Leland Ryken and Benjamin Hernández and many more

Author : Geordan Hammond
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Georgia
ISBN :

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This thesis is a study of John Wesley and Georgia. While Wesley's biographers have all dealt with the Georgia sojourn, no one has yet produced a book-length investigation of his experience in the New World. The central argument of this study is that the Georgia mission, for Wesley, was a laboratory for implementing his views of primitive Christianity. The ideal of restoring the doctrine, discipline, and practice of the primitive church in the pristine Georgia wilderness was the prime motivating factor in Wesley's decision to embark for Georgia and in his clerical practice in the colony. Comprehending the centrality of primitive Christianity to Wesley's thinking and pastoral method is essential to understanding his experience in America. The sources of Wesley's understanding of primitive Christianity were rooted in the revival of patristic studies in the Church of England in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Knowledge of the early church was conveyed to Wesley by his parents in the Epworth rectory and in the halls of academia at Oxford. However, his interest in the primitive church took a new and more intense direction following the beginning of his friendship with John Clayton and the Manchester Nonjurors in 1732. It was the pervasive influence of Clayton and his mentor Thomas Deacon that propelled Wesley to investigate the theology and social ethics of the early church. Wesley began a rigorous course of studying primarily the Apostolic Fathers including the Apostolic Constitutions and Canons, secondarily the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and thirdly select holy men of the fourth century such as Ephraem Syrus. This study was enabled by utilizing editions of the Fathers by the best Anglican scholars of his day and was supplemented by influential studies of the primitive church by Anthony Horneck, William Cave, and Claude Fleury amongst others. The main body of the thesis critically analyses Wesley's application of his vision of primitive Christianity on the Simmonds and in his parish ministry in Georgia. It will emerge that Wesley's ecciesiology was that of the Usager Nonjurors which was in many aspects shared by other contemporary High Churchmen. In common with the Nonjuring/High Church movement, Wesley's ecclesial practice stressed the centrality of the sacraments in worship. In Georgia his endeavour to imitate the practices of the primitive church manifested itself variously through interest in precise sacramental observance, confession, penance, ascetical discipline, deaconesses, religious societies, and mission to the Indians. This theme dominated his interactions with the leaders of the Moravians and Salzburgers particularly on the subjects of episcopacy and communion. The final chapter of the thesis examines opposition to Wesley's ministry in Georgia. Colonists who did not embrace his views of primitive Christianity variously accused him of being an enthusiast, Roman Catholic, and divisive clergyman. Opposition also came in the form of male disgust with the manner of Wesley's ministry to women and the magistrates' reaction to his advocacy for poor colonists he believed were being oppressed. These sources of opposition combined with the Sophia Williamson controversy brought his Georgia sojourn to a swift conclusion. Through providing a critical evaluation of Wesley's conception and practice of primitive Christianity in Georgia, this thesis will contribute to the debates about the significance of a formative period of Wesley's life.

Author : Dr. Alvin Low
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0557138000

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What is missions? Who is a missionary? Why plant churches? How to profile an unreached people group? These and many more questions are answered in this important book.