Early Evangelicalism : a reader /
Early evangelicalism flourished during the transatlantic revivals of the eighteenth century, coinciding with the emergence of the Enlightenment in America and Europe. This anthology introduces a host of important religious figures, providing biographical sketches of each author and over sixty excerp...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- A selection of hymns / Isaac Watts
- Biography of a Moravian / Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf
- Justice for the punishment of sin / Jonathan Dickinson
- George Whitefield's signature sermon
- Calvinism under fire / John Wesley
- The conversion of a Welshman / Howell Harris
- A selection of hymns by Charles Wesley
- A divisive great awakening sermon / Gilbert Tennent
- Revivals as a means of reform / Samuel Finley
- Diary of doubts / Hannah Heaton
- Racing to hear Whitefield preach / Nathan Cole
- Revival at Cambuslang, Scotland / William McCulloch
- Overcome by the power of the spirit / Sarah Pierpont Edwards
- Revival at Kilsyth, Scotland / James Robe
- Jonathan Edwards assesses a revival / Thomas Prince
- Piety over worldly pleasures / Susanna Anthony
- Satan's strategies of deception / Thomas Gillespie
- Spiritual devotions for the soul / Philip Doddridge
- A conversion story / John Cennick
- A missionary among Native Americans / David Brainerd
- A selection of hymns / Benjamin Ingham
- Summarizing God's law / Joseph Bellamy
- Revival in the low countries / Hugh Kennedy
- Satirical revenge / John Witherspoon
- Natural vs. moral necessity in the will / Jonathan Edwards
- Open letter to commit oneself to God / Sarah Prince Gill
- The humiliation and exaltation of the cross / John Maclaurin
- Determining divine grace / Sarah Osborn
- Eloquent Calvinism / James Hervey
- Life as the wife of a college president / Esther Edwards Burr
- Report on African American religion in Virginia / Samuel Davies
- Praising the ineffable / Anne Steele
- Before Dartmouth College / Eleazar Wheelock
- The difference between true and false religion / Henry Venn
- Salvation at sea / John Newton
- An Anglican minister describes faith / William Romaine
- Faith restricted to the mind / John Erskine
- Advice to women on chastity, poverty, and obedience / Mary Fletcher
- Defending the doctrine of Christian perfection / John William Fletcher
- A selection of hymns / William Williams
- Advice on alcohol / Samson Occom
- An argument for the separation of church and state / Isaac Backus
- A selection of poems / Phillis Wheatley
- Practical disinterested benevolence / Samuel Hopkins
- Amazing Grace (How Sweet the Sound) / John Newton
- A Baptist's beliefs / John Ryland Jr.
- A gospel call to sinners / Henry Alline
- The duty to respond to the gospel message / Andrew Fuller
- The ideal student / Charles Nisbet
- The unlawfulness of enslaving humans / Thomas Clarkson
- An appeal to the higher ranks of society / Hannah More
- Salvation comes to a sailor / Olaudah Equiano
- Journal of an American Methodist / Francis Asbury
- Guidelines for American Methodists / Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke
- An argument for overseas missionary work / William Carey
- The necessity of evil / Samuel Hopkins
- Godly living in a New England town / Timothy Dwight
- Debunking racial stereotypes / Richard Allen
- An Anglican evangelical's sermon / Charles Simeon
- True and false religion exposed / William Wilberforce
- Godly government during a time of crisis / Lemuel Haynes
- A conspiracy theorist's theory / Jedidiah Morse.