Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom (eBook)

The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South

Peter N. Moore (Autor)

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2018
252 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6991-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book draws on the life of Presbyterian minister and diarist Archibald Simpson (1734–1795) to examine the history of evangelical Protestantism in South Carolina and the British Atlantic during the last half of the eighteenth century. The author reconstructs the ordeal of the evangelical movement and analyzes the effects of the Great Awakening.

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This book draws on the life of Presbyterian minister and diarist Archibald Simpson (17341795) to examine the history of evangelical Protestantism in South Carolina and the British Atlantic during the last half of the eighteenth century. Although he grew up in the evangelical heartland of Scotland in the wake of the great mid-century revivals, Simpson spurned revivalism and devoted himself instead to the grinding work of the parish ministry. At age nineteen he immigrated to South Carolina, where he spent the next eighteen years serving slaveholding Reformed congregations in the lowcountry plantation district. Here powerful planters held sway over slaves, families, churches, and communities, and Simpson was constantly embattled as he sought to impose an evangelical order on his parishes. In refusing to put the gospel in the pockets of planters who scorned itand who were accustomed to controlling their parish churcheshe earned their enmity. As a result, every relationship was freighted with deceit and danger, and every practicesermons, funerals, baptisms, pastoral visits, death narratives, sickness, courtship, friendship, domestic concernswas contested and politicized. In this context, the cause of the gospel made little headway in Simpson's corner of the world. Despite the great midcentury revivals, the steady stream of religious dissenters who poured into the province, and all the noise they made about slave conversions, Simpson's story suggests that there was no evangelical movement in colonial South Carolina, just a tired and frustrating evangelical slog.

Autor

Peter N. Moore is professor of history at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi.

Inhalt

Introduction: Archibald Simpson, his bookChapter 1: Glasgow, 1742Chapter 2: Less than NothingChapter 3: All FlameChapter 4: Prisoner of HopeChapter 5: Trouble in IsraelChapter 6: A Dying WorldChapter 7: Dreams of EthiopiaChapter 8: Dangers, Toils, and SnaresChapter 9: Two Communities at WarChapter 10: All Society Seems at an EndEpilogue: All in All

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.4.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Religion in American History
• Zusatzinfo: 10 Illustrations including: - 9 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Schlagworte: Archibald Simpson • British Evangelicalism • Evangelical biography • evangelicalism • Evangelicals and slavery • Great Awakening • lived religion • Pastoral Care • religion and slavery • Religion and Society • Scottish evangelicalism • South Carolina
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6991-9 / 1498569919
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6991-0 / 9781498569910