The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders

The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders
Author: Rimi Xhemajli
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 172526921X

In The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders, Rimi Xhemajli shows how a small but passionate movement grew and shook the religious world through astonishing signs and wonders. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, early American Methodist preachers, known as circuit riders, were appointed to evangelize the American frontier by presenting an experiential gospel: one that featured extraordinary phenomena that originated from God’s Spirit. In employing this evangelistic strategy of the gospel message fueled by supernatural displays, Methodism rapidly expanded. Despite beginning with only ten official circuit riders in the early 1770s, by the early 1830s, circuit riders had multiplied and caused Methodism to become the largest American denomination of its day. In investigating the significance of the supernatural in the circuit rider ministry, Xhemajli provides a new historical perspective through his eye-opening demonstration of the correlation between the supernatural and the explosive membership growth of early American Methodism, which fueled the Second Great Awakening. In doing so, he also prompts the consideration of the relevance and reproduction of such acts in the American church today.

The Circuit Rider

The Circuit Rider
Author: Edward Eggleston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1875
Genre: American fiction
ISBN:

This novel is about a small community and its relationship with Methodist circuit-riding preachers who traveled the frontier.

The Circuit Rider

The Circuit Rider
Author: Edward Eggleston
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2023-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368819550

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Confessions of a Circuit Rider

Confessions of a Circuit Rider
Author: Stephen Faller
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666770329

Chaplaincy. Pastoral care. Ministry. The care of souls. What lies beneath that which lies beneath them? Like Virgil, chaplain Stephen Faller guides an unusual tour winding through personal disclosure about ministry, adoption, chaplaincy, and disability. Contextualized within chaplaincy and clinical pastoral education, Faller examines these "visions from a little-known country." Within the landscape are the sights of living in a post-9/11 world as they prefigure the change and uncertainty that marked American life and ministry after the pandemic of 2020. A conclusion to "a dialectical inquiry at the end of the world," Faller explores the history of philosophy and religion in order to navigate an already unusual life within strange times. Essential reading for chaplains, and helpful insights for all those within the helping professions. As ministry continues to move beyond the surrounding walls of the institutional building, Faller suggests that chaplaincy can be a meaningful space for ordained ministry as one of the great "spaces between spaces." Moreover, this confessor's confession spells a way for storytellers and story collectors to find direction when meaning is lost. Chaplaincy itself is a meaningful response to a world turned upside down.

Taylor Callahan, Circuit Rider

Taylor Callahan, Circuit Rider
Author: William W. Johnstone
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2022-05-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 078604909X

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. THE BULLET STOPS HERE. Introducing one of the most unusual heroes of the lawless West—a mysterious man in black who rides from town to town, delivering hope, healing, and hard-fought justice . . . his way. In his younger days, Taylor Callahan didn’t know right from wrong—and didn’t much care either. As a Confederate bushwhacker, renegade outlaw, and all-around hellraiser, he gave the devil himself a run for his money. Most folks figured Taylor would end up swinging from a noose or shot dead in poker game. But somewhere along the road to perdition, he decided to change his wicked ways. To atone for his sins. And to fight the good fight—against the evil that men do. . . . So he became a traveling preacher. But Taylor Callahan is no ordinary preacher. He rides the western circuit looking to help lost souls. But his mission of peace takes a violent turn when he enters the godforsaken town of Falstaff, Texas. Better known to locals as “False Hope,” this one-time paradise has become a purgatory for homesteaders—thanks to a greedy rancher, corrupt mayor, and notorious confidence man. Even so, Callahan vows to keep his Colt .45 in his saddle bag. But when these lowlife devils pull out sticks of dynamite, a man has to do what a man has to do—before the whole town is blown to kingdom come. . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Circuit Rider

Circuit Rider
Author: William Reynolds
Publisher: Double Eagle Enterprises, Inc.
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2005
Genre: Adultery
ISBN: 9780970032089

A country preacher deals with sin in the guise of adultery, arson, and murder. Those who are aware of what is happening around them know that there are several places that are essentially without law. Living in such a community is difficult enough, but pastoring has its own unique difficulties. Zeb Rawlins finds himself in a great deal of difficulty when the son of one of his church member kills another. No matter what Zeb does, he's wrong.