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Author | : Christine Leigh Heyrman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2015-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0809023989 |
In "American Apostles" Christine Leigh Heyrman chronicles the first fateful collision between American missionaries and the diverse religious cultures of the Levant. Pliny Fisk, Levi Parsons, and Jonas King became the founding members of the Palestine mission and ventured to Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, and Syria, where they sought to expose the falsity of Muhammad's creed and to restore these bastions of Islam to true Christianity. Not only among the first Americans to travel throughout the Middle East, the Palestine missionaries also played a crucial role in shaping their compatriots' understanding of the Muslim world. "American Apostles "brings to life evangelicals' first encounters with the Middle East and uncovers their complicated legacy. The Palestine mission held the promise of acquainting Americans with a fuller and more accurate understanding of Islam, but ultimately it bolstered a more militant Christianity, one that became the unofficial creed of the United States over the course of the nineteenth century. The political and religious consequences of that outcome endure to this day.
Author | : Molly Worthen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190630515 |
In Apostles of Reason, Molly Worthen offers a sweeping history of modern American evangelicalism, arguing that the faith has been shaped not by shared beliefs but by battles over the relationship between faith and reason.
Author | : Kathleen Flake |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780807855010 |
Between 1901 and 1907, a coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate for being a Mormon. Here, Kathleen Flake shows how the subsequent investigative hearing ultimately mediated a compromise between Progressive Era Protestantism and Mormonism and resolved the nation's long-standing "Mormon Problem."
Author | : P.D. James |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0857861077 |
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
Author | : Douglas Morgan |
Publisher | : Review and Herald Pub Assoc |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0828023972 |
Born just as the Civil War began, Lewis Sheafe grew to manhood at a pivotal moment in American history. But instead of racial equality, the nation offered its freed slaves further oppression and injustice. Sheafestrong-willed, dynamic, and seemingly tirelesshad but two main objectives: uplift his people spiritually and socially, and consistently adhere to biblical principle in all aspects of life. In this gripping biography Douglas Morgan pieces together the life of this forgotten leader whose story sheds light on the reason that no lasting, separate Black Adventist denomination ever formed.
Author | : Felipe Hinojosa |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1477321985 |
In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and disrupting services to compel church communities to join their protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and establishes their context within the urban crisis; relates the tensions they created; and articulates the activists' bold, new vision for the church and the world. Through case studies from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries between faith and politics and argues that understanding the history of these radical politics is essential to understanding the dynamic changes in Latino religious groups from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
Author | : Richard Gribble |
Publisher | : Crossroad Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780824526214 |
This Catholic Press Association First-Place winner covers the life of one of the most influential figures of 20th century Catholic piety. In a career that spanned half a century, Father Patrick J. Peyton, CSC, criss-crossed the world proclaiming a simple but profound message, "The Family that Prays Together Stays Together." An Irish immigrant to the United States, Fr. Peyton experienced a miraculous recovery from tuberculosis by, what he believed to be, the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Following this faithful encounter, Fr. Peyton initiated an international program to promote family prayer through the rosary. Through radio, "Family Theater of the Air," television films, and most prominently, a series of international rosary crusades, Fr. Peyton converted millions to his simple message that continues to inspire today. This major volume covers his life in rich detail, including a photo insert.
Author | : Edward E. Andrews |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674073495 |
As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Americans, as scholars have long assumed, but members of the same groups that missionaries were trying to convert. Native Apostles offers one of the most significant untold stories in the history of early modern religious encounters, marshalling wide-ranging research to shed light on the crucial role of Native Americans, Africans, and black slaves in Protestant missionary work. The result is a pioneering view of religion’s spread through the colonial world. From New England to the Caribbean, the Carolinas to Africa, Iroquoia to India, Protestant missions relied on long-forgotten native evangelists, who often outnumbered their white counterparts. Their ability to tap into existing networks of kinship and translate between white missionaries and potential converts made them invaluable assets and potent middlemen. Though often poor and ostracized by both whites and their own people, these diverse evangelists worked to redefine Christianity and address the challenges of slavery, dispossession, and European settlement. Far from being advocates for empire, their position as cultural intermediaries gave native apostles unique opportunities to challenge colonialism, situate indigenous peoples within a longer history of Christian brotherhood, and harness scripture to secure a place for themselves and their followers. Native Apostles shows that John Eliot, Eleazar Wheelock, and other well-known Anglo-American missionaries must now share the historical stage with the black and Indian evangelists named Hiacoomes, Good Peter, Philip Quaque, John Quamine, and many more.
Author | : Saint Raphael Clergy Brotherhood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781944967659 |
In 1892, a young man left his home in the coastal foothills of Lebanon in search of a better life. Coming to America with his newlywed wife, he found work as a traveling peddler before settling on a small farm in central Nebraska. Years later, personal tragedy and an unexpected midnight visit from a saint changed the course of his life. Seeing the desperate need of his fellow Orthodox Christians and heeding God's call, he would spend the rest of his life traversing the Great Plains as a circuit-riding priest, known to his thousands of parishioners as Father Nicola Yanney. His legacy stands alongside that of St. Raphael Hawaweeny, his mentor, as a seminal force in the American Orthodox Church of our day.
Author | : Alvah Hovey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |