"Fire from the Midst of You": A Religious Life of John BrownNYU Press, 22. des. 2002 - 349 sider Reveals a complex new portrait of John Brown, radical abolitionist and leader of the 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry |
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... church member, Bible teacher, and a devoted layman throughout his life. Even after he committed himself full time to the abolitionist struggle, he remained a church attender and faithful Bible student. Furthermore, he and his family ...
... church, originating with the Eucharistic veneration of martyred Christians. In time this veneration became cultic, forcing theologians to underscore the difference between worshiping God and honoring saints. Later, Protestant ...
... churches destroyed in numerous riots during the 1830s and 1840s. When the whites of Cincinnati mobbed the black community in 1829 because of their growing presence in that city, many blacks were driven out and forced to migrate to ...
... Church at West Simsbury, the teenage Owen became close to the clergyman, who took in the struggling youth and tutored him “a great deal.” While staying with Hallock, Owen came “under some convictions of sin”—bothered by a sense of ...
... with Gillett's ministry that they transferred their membership to the Torrington Congregational Church. Indeed, the memory of this late eighteenth century movement became Owen's standard 22 | Part I: A Power above Ourselves.
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Part III Providence and Principle | 81 |
Part IV In Times of Difficulty | 121 |
Part V Big Difficulties and Firm Footholds | 161 |
Part VI Enduring Hardness | 203 |
VII I Will Raise a Storm | 237 |
A Saints Rest | 279 |
Notes | 285 |
Selected Bibliography | 335 |
Index | 345 |
About the Author
| 349 |
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