Adin Ballou's Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England (eBook)

Practical Christianity

Bryce Hal Taylor (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
270 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8972-7 (ISBN)

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New England Christianity in the nineteenth century produced an almost unending stream of new and old denominations that speckled the landscape. Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Universalists, Spiritualists, Unitarians, Restorationists, and Calviniststo name a fewbeckoned each individual to join their growing movements. Each professed its truths and some proclaimed theirs was the only path leading to salvation. Admist this Christian angst, Adin Ballou began his spiritual quest to obtain truth.Through Ballous lengthy spiritual quest, from 1820 to 1880, this book examines how denominational histories, however important, do not explain what a nineteenth-century New England Christian became. Ballou exemplifies this paradox. Always fixed, but never settled. Once a believer chose a path, new phenomena and teachings immediately appeared leaving ones truth claims transient. Through the Christian maze of nineteenth-century New England, Ballous Christian faith was simply his own.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • American Religion • Anarchism • Christian Anarchism • Christianity • Non-violence • Nonviolence • Pacifism • Spirituality • Utopianism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8972-3 / 1498589723
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8972-7 / 9781498589727