The Great Revival : beginnings of the Bible belt
John B. Boles (Author)
Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional excess but the expression of widespread and complex attitudes toward God. Converted southerners were starkly individualistic, interested more in gaining personal salvation in a hopelessly evil world than in improving society. As Boles shows in this landmark study, the effect of the Revival was to throw over the region a conservative cast that remains dominant in c
eBook, English, 1996
The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1996
Church history
1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations, maps.
9780813148571, 9780813188478, 9780813170657, 081314857X, 0813188474, 0813170656
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; Chapter One: The Setting; Chapter Two: The Feeling of Crisis; Chapter Three: The Theory of Providential Deliverance; Chapter Four: Portents of Revival; Chapter Five: Kentucky Ablaze; Chapter Six: The South Conquered; Chapter Seven: The Changing Revival Image; Chapter Eight: Homiletics & Hymnology; Chapter Nine: A Theology of Individualism; Chapter Ten: Unity & Schism; Chapter Eleven: The Economic & Political Thought of Southern Revivalism; Chapter Twelve: Revivalism & the Southern Evangelical Mind. Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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