The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820Harvard University Press, 1997 - 220 страница This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... revivalism is its insistence upon crisis . Revivalist preachers do not have to look far to arouse the vulnerabilities of their congregations . Invasion from the wilderness remains a realistic fear in the middle third of the eighteenth ...
... revivalism is its insistence upon crisis . Revivalist preachers do not have to look far to arouse the vulnerabilities of their congregations . Invasion from the wilderness remains a realistic fear in the middle third of the eighteenth ...
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... revivalism and the Enlightenment do meet in the colonial intellectual's favorite metaphor of light brought out of darkness . The conjunction protects the American colonies in their typological signifi- cance as a chosen people ...
... revivalism and the Enlightenment do meet in the colonial intellectual's favorite metaphor of light brought out of darkness . The conjunction protects the American colonies in their typological signifi- cance as a chosen people ...
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... revivalism . They fear religious enthusiasm at least as much as they do economic inflation and factionalism , and the surge in evangelical outpourings after the Revolu- tion increases their apprehension . Revivalism , after all , mounts ...
... revivalism . They fear religious enthusiasm at least as much as they do economic inflation and factionalism , and the surge in evangelical outpourings after the Revolu- tion increases their apprehension . Revivalism , after all , mounts ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
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