Revival and Religion Since 1700: Essays for John Walsh

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A&C Black, Jul 1, 1993 - History - 342 pages
All truly religious movements are informed by a search for spiritual renewal, often signaled by an attempt to return to what are seen as the original, undiluted values of earlier times. Elements of this process are to be seen in the history of almost all modern religious revivals, both inside and outside the mainstream denominations.
 

Contents

1 Wesley and the CounterReformation
1
2 Shaftesburian Enthusiasm and the Evangelical Revival
21
The Case of Gerhard Tersteegen
41
Changing Attitudes towards the Poor in EighteenthCentury England
59
Victorian Representations of EighteenthCentury Thought
79
Prophet of the Millennium
95
7 Gladstone Evangelicalism and The Engagement
111
8 Religious Revival and Political Renewal in Antebellum America
127
10 Cemeteries Religion and the Culture of Capitalism
183
A Preliminary Sketch
201
12 The Golden Age of New York City Catholicism
249
A Reappraisal
273
14 Hastings Rashdall and the Renewal of Christian Social Ethics c18901920
297
Index
317
List of Subscribers
329
Copyright

Four Methodist Generations
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