Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810Oxford University Press, 24/09/1998 - 264 من الصفحات This book looks at the role of Methodism in the Revolutionary and early national South. When the Methodists first arrived in the South, Lyerly argues, they were critics of the social order. By advocating values traditionally deemed "feminine," treating white women and African Americans with considerable equality, and preaching against wealth and slavery, Methodism challenged Southern secular mores. For this reason, Methodism evoked sustained opposition, especially from elite white men. Lyerly analyzes the public denunciations, domestic assaults on Methodist women and children, and mob violence against black Methodists. These attacks, Lyerly argues, served to bind Methodists more closely to one another; they were sustained by the belief that suffering was salutary and that persecution was a mark of true faith. |
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The Marrow of the Methodist Self Doctrines Values and Practices | 27 |
Slaves and Free Blacks in the Church | 47 |
The Poverty of Riches Methodists and Class | 73 |
Mothers in Israel White Women in the Church | 94 |
Slavery Racism and the MasterSlave Relationship | 119 |
Turning the World Upside Down The Stakes of the Conflict | 146 |
Epilogue | 176 |
Appendix | 187 |
Notes | 189 |
Selected Bibliography | 225 |
Index | 239 |
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الصفحة 53 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
الصفحة 52 - I waited patiently for the Lord ; And He inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
الصفحة 52 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
الصفحة 53 - And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years. 7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage, will I judge, said God : and after that, shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
الصفحة 42 - ... and so much the more, because the world will love its own, and them only. By all possible diligence and frugality, that the gospel be not blamed. By running with patience the race that is set before them, denying themselves, and taking up their cross daily...
الصفحة 220 - Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and Charles Rosenberg, "The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America...
الصفحة 36 - all his desire is unto God, and to the remembrance of his name." Agreeable to this his one desire, is the one design of his life, namely, "not to do his own will, but the will of Him that sent him.
الصفحة 172 - the dear black people was filled with the power and spirit of God and began with a great Shout to give glory to God — this vexed the Devil.
الصفحة 30 - What is more tender than a mother's love To the sweet infant fondling in her arms ? What arguments need her compassion move To hear its cries, and help it in its harms ? Now, if the tenderest mother were possessed Of all the love within her single breast Of all the mothers since the world began, 'Tis nothing to the love of God to man.