· (Brett Grainger is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University. A historian of American religion and early modern Christianity, Grainger has focused much of his writing and teaching on Protestant mysticism, religious attitudes to nature, and the modern rise of post-institutional forms of spirituality. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America by Brett Malcolm Grainger (Hardcover, ) at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products! · Emerson and the Transcendentalists get credit for revolutionizing religious life in America by introducing a new appreciation of nature. But in this reconsideration of faith in the antebellum period, Brett Malcolm Grainger argues that it was evangelical revivalists who transformed everyday religious life and spiritualized the natural environment.
American Spaces of Conversion-Andrea Knutson This study examines how the concept of conversion and the legacy of the doctrine of preparation, as articulated in Puritan Reformed theology and transplanted to the Massachusetts Bay colony, remained a vital cultural force shaping developments in American literature, theology. A religious studies scholar argues that in antebellum America, evangelicals, not Transcendentalists, connected ordinary Americans with their spiritual roots in the natural world. We have long credited Emerson and his fellow Transcendentalists with revolutionizing religious life in America and introducing a new appreciation of nature. Breaking with Protestant orthodoxy, these New Englanders. Emerson and the Transcendentalists get credit for revolutionizing religious life in America by introducing a new appreciation of nature. But in this reconsideration of faith in the antebellum period, Brett Malcolm Grainger argues that it was Evangelical revivalists who transformed everyday religious life and spiritualized the natural environment.
In this extraordinary book, Brett Grainger writes beautifully about how antebellum evangelicals saw ‘field, forest, and stream’ as suffused with the immediate presence of Christ. Church in the Wild convincingly argues that nature spirituality was as much an everyday practice for evangelicals as Bible piety. Readers will come away from this profound reinterpretation with a changed understanding of evangelicals as practitioners of outdoor worship, natural theology, and vital piety. Brett Malcolm Grainger makes two important arguments in this book: (1) early republic Evangelicals represent an important, non-derivative, and popular strand of American religious engagement with nature, a story often ignored while focusing on Emerson and Thoreau; and (2) the everyday religion of antebellum American Evangelicals shows us that. Church in the wild: evangelicals in antebellum America / Brett Malcolm Grainger. By: Grainger, Brett [author.] Healing springs -- The theology of electricity.
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