The Benevolent Deity: Ebenezer Gay and the Rise of Rational Religion in New England, 1696-1787 - Hardcover

Wilson, Robert J., III

 
9780812278910: The Benevolent Deity: Ebenezer Gay and the Rise of Rational Religion in New England, 1696-1787
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0812278917 ISBN 13: 9780812278910
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984

Inhaltsangabe

The years following the Great Awakening in New England saw a great theological struggle between proponents of Calvinism and the champions of Christian liberty, setting the stage for American Unitarianism. The adherents of Christian liberty, who were branded Arminians by their opponents, were contending for the liberty of the mind and the soul to pursue truth and salvation free from prior restraint.

The Arminian movement took shape as a major, quasi-denominational force in New England under the guidance of particular clergymen, most notably Ebenezer Gay, minister of the First Parish in Hingham, Massachusetts, from 1718 to 1787. Despite his ubiquitous presence in the history of Arminianism, however, Gay has been a historical enigma. Robert J. Wilson's purpose in this biography is to trace Gay's long and fascinating intellectual odyssey against the evolving social, political, and economic life of eighteenth-century Hingham as well as the religious history of the coastal region between Boston and Plymouth.

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Robert J. Wilson III is Professor of History at Georgia College.

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Verlag
University of Pennsylvania Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1984
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812278917
ISBN 13 
9780812278910
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Anzahl der Seiten
328
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