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Vol. 3, No. 1 (February 15, 1843) to Vol. 4, No. 24 (February 1, 1845), comprising forty-eight bi-monthly issues, volumes three and four complete. Folio. Bound in leather and marbled boards. Binding good, spine well worn. Contents near fine, clean and white. John Humphrey Noyes (1811 1886) was an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. When he was 20, Noyes underwent a religious conversion, committing himself to the religious life. My heart was fixed on the millennium, and I resolved to live or die for it, Noyes later recalled. While in his second year at Yale Theological Seminary Noyes made what he considered a major theological discovery. While attempting to determine the date of the second coming of Christ, Noyes became convinced that the event had already occurred. His conclusion was that Christ s second coming had taken place in 70 AD and that therefore mankind was now living in a new age. With this in mind Noyes became increasingly concerned with salvation from sin and with perfection. He argued with his colleagues that unless man was truly free of sin, then Christianity was a lie, and that only those who were perfect and free of sin were true Christians. Noyes idea of Perfectionism, that it was possible to be free of sin in this lifetime, put him in a new relationship to God [that] canceled out his obligation to obey traditional moral standards or the normal laws of society. Upon his expulsion from Yale and the revocation of his ministerial license, he moved to Putney, Vermont, where he continued to preach. The Putney community, under his leadership, began in 1836 as the Putney Bible School and became a formal communal organization in 1844, practicing perfectionism and, among other things, complex marriage, a term Noyes coined. The Perfectionist was the third periodical issued by Noyes. The first two had been issued erratically over nearly ten years. This would be his first regularly published effort. Each handsomely printed 4-page issue contained a substantial doctrinal essay by Noyes, contributions on various spiritual topics by members of the community, essays on other religions and how they compared to Perfectionism, news of the second coming (which the Millerites and others concluded would happen in 1843), editorials, and a page of correspondence from readers. In 1847, when Noyes was arrested for adultery and other arrest warrants were issued for several of his loyal followers, the group left Vermont for Oneida, New York. They settled there, and thus began the most famous chapter in Noyes life: the Oneida Community. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1570281860307
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