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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816566703321

Titolo

Revival and religion since 1700 : essays for John Walsh / / edited by Jane Garnett and Colin Matthew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio, : Hambledon Press, 1993

ISBN

1-4725-9979-9

1-282-02462-0

9786612024627

0-8264-4379-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WalshJohn <1927->

GarnettJane

MatthewH. C. G (Henry Colin Gray)

Disciplina

270.7

Soggetti

Great Britain Church history

United States Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; John Walsh; Preface; Contributors; 1 Wesley and the Counter-Reformation; 2 Shaftesburian Enthusiasm and the Evangelical Revival; 3 Mysticism and Revival: The Case of Gerhard Tersteegen; 4 Charity, Custom and Humanity: Changing Attitudes towards the Poor in Eighteenth-Century England; 5 Knock-Kneed Giants: Victorian Representations of Eighteenth-Century Thought; 6 Edward Irving: Prophet of the Millennium; 7 Gladstone, Evangelicalism and 'The Engagement'; 8 Religious Revival and Political Renewal in Antebellum America

9 Architects in Connexion: Four Methodist Generations10 Cemeteries, Religion and the Culture of Capitalism; 11 The Discovery of Puritanism, 1820-1914: A Preliminary Sketch; 12 The 'Golden Age' of New York City Catholicism; 13 The Christian Socialist Revival in Britain: A Reappraisal; 14 Hastings Rashdall and the Renewal of Christian Social Ethics, c.1890-1920; Index; List of Subscribers

Sommario/riassunto

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