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John Wesley and the Religious Societies
JOHN WESLEY AND THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES JOHN WESLEY AND THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES BY JOHN S. SIMON, D.D. AUTHOR OF * A SUMMARY OF METHODIST LAW AND DISCIPLINE,' * THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY,' ETC. LONDON THE EPWORTH PRESS J. ALFRED SHARP First edition, 1921 PREFACE Canon Overton, in his Life in the English Church, 1660- ' 1714, says that there is no doubt that John Wesley intended his Societies to be an exact repetition of what was done by Beveridge, Horneck, and Smythies sixty-two years before.' ' He continues : How it was that the Methodist Societies took a different course is a very interesting, and, to a church- man, a very sad question.' In this book I have given descrip- tions of the first Rehgious Societies, and have shown their development under the influence of Dr. Woodward and John Wesley. From those descriptions my readers wiU be able to judge the accuracy of Canon Overton's statement concern- ing John Wesley's intentions. There can be no doubt, how- ' ' ever, that the relationship between the Religious Societies ' ' and the United Societies of the People called Methodists was so close that the latter cannot be understood without an intimate knowledge of the former. In writing this book, I have kept the Methodist Church in view. My eyes have been fixed on John Wesley and the England in which his greatest work was done. We can never understand the revival of religion which glorified the eighteenth century until we see Wesley as he wls, and get rid of the false impressions created by writers who have had an imperfect acquaintance with him and his evangelistic work. -
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury This One, with Gratitude, Is for DON CONGDON
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury This one, with gratitude, is for DON CONGDON. FAHRENHEIT 451: The temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns PART I: THE HEARTH AND THE SALAMANDER IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN. IT was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon- winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame. He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, Does% burntcorked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his Montag% face muscles, in the dark. -
The Wesleyan Enlightenment
The Wesleyan Enlightenment: Closing the gap between heart religion and reason in Eighteenth Century England by Timothy Wayne Holgerson B.M.E., Oral Roberts University, 1984 M.M.E., Wichita State University, 1986 M.A., Asbury Theological Seminary, 1999 M.A., Kansas State University, 2011 AN ABSTRACT OF A DISSERTATION submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of History College of Arts and Sciences KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Manhattan, Kansas 2017 Abstract John Wesley (1703-1791) was an Anglican priest who became the leader of Wesleyan Methodism, a renewal movement within the Church of England that began in the late 1730s. Although Wesley was not isolated from his enlightened age, historians of the Enlightenment and theologians of John Wesley have only recently begun to consider Wesley in the historical context of the Enlightenment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship between a man, John Wesley, and an intellectual movement, the Enlightenment. As a comparative history, this study will analyze the juxtaposition of two historiographies, Wesley studies and Enlightenment studies. Surprisingly, Wesley scholars did not study John Wesley as an important theologian until the mid-1960s. Moreover, because social historians in the 1970s began to explore the unique ways people experienced the Enlightenment in different local, regional and national contexts, the plausibility of an English Enlightenment emerged for the first time in the early 1980s. As a result, in the late 1980s, scholars began to integrate the study of John Wesley and the Enlightenment. In other words, historians and theologians began to consider Wesley as a serious thinker in the context of an English Enlightenment that was not hostile to Christianity. -
260 Paul Kléber Monod This Is an Ambitious Book. Monod's
260 book reviews Paul Kléber Monod Solomon’s Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment, New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2013. x + 430 pp. isbn 978-0-300-12358-6. This is an ambitious book. Monod’s subject is the occult, by which he means ‘a type of thinking expressed either in writing or in action, that allowed the boundary between the natural and the supernatural to be crossed by the ac- tions of human beings’ (p. 5). Although he cites the work of Antoine Faivre, Wouter Hanegraaff and others, readers of Aries will doubtless be interested to learn Monod’s reasoning for using the term occult in preference to West- ern esotericism. In short, while acknowledging the important contribution of the ‘esoteric approach’ he also highlights its perceived ‘shortcomings’, namely a tendency to regard relevant texts as ‘comprising a discrete and largely self- referential intellectual tradition, hermetically sealed so as to ward off the taint of other forms of thought, not to mention social trends and popular practices’. Moreover, ‘scholars of esoteric religion’ apparently ‘have a tendency to inter- pret whatever they are studying with the greatest seriousness, so that hucksters and charlatans turn into philosophers, and minor references in obscure eso- teric works take on labyrinthine significances’ (p. 10). In practice, what Monod understands here as the occult is largely restricted to alchemy, astrology and rit- ual magic; a maelstrom which, among other things, pulled in readers of Hermes Trismegistus, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme and the Kabbalah, outwardly respectable scientists and anti-Trinitarians (sometimes one and the same); Philadelphians; French Prophets; Freemasons; students of Ancient Britain and the Druids; cunning folk; authors of popular Gothic novels; certain followers of Emmanuel Swedenborg; Neoplatonists; advocates of Ani- mal magnetism; and Judaized millenarians. -
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka a.b.e-book v3.0 / Notes at the end Back Cover : "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic. numinous and prophetic." -- New York Times "The Complete Stories is an encyclopedia of our insecurities and our brave attempts to oppose them." -- Anatole Broyard Franz Kafka wrote continuously and furiously throughout his short and intensely lived life, but only allowed a fraction of his work to be published during his lifetime. Shortly before his death at the age of forty, he instructed Max Brod, his friend and literary executor, to burn all his remaining works of fiction. Fortunately, Brod disobeyed. Page 1 The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony" and "The Hunger Artist" to less-known, shorter pieces and fragments Brod released after Kafka's death; with the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in this volume. The remarkable depth and breadth of his brilliant and probing imagination become even more evident when these stories are seen as a whole. This edition also features a fascinating introduction by John Updike, a chronology of Kafka's life, and a selected bibliography of critical writings about Kafka. Copyright © 1971 by Schocken Books Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Schocken Books Inc., New York. Distributed by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. -
The Spirituality and Theology of William Law (1686-1761)
Introduction Spirituality is a phenomenon that has touched both the Protestant and Catholic branches1 of Christianity. Spirituality is hard to define accurately,2 but in both Protestant and Catholic circles particular characteristics are common. The characteristics of prayer, meditation, contemplation, mysticism, asceticism, and a drive for perfection accompany all forms of Christian spirituality. Protestant spirituality can be generally categorized into mystical or “meditative”spirituality, and energetic or “missionary” spirituality.3 This essay will inspect eighteenth century English meditative spirituality, as found in the works of the greatest writer of this tradition, William Law (1686-1761).4 In doing so I will first give a brief sketch of William Law‟s life; then, secondly, explain and review his doctrine of the atonement and union with God. I must point out that these two doctrines are ultimate to all forms spirituality because they configure the paradigm for their doctrine of the Christian life; a life of disciplined self sacrifice, which was epitomized by Jesus on the cross, and a life of the here-and-now experience of complete love in oneness with God. The Life of William Law (1686-1761) 1 There are numerous schools of spirituality within Roman Catholicism today. Cistercian, Carmelite, Marian and Jesuit spirituality make up the majority of the Roman Catholic preoccupation with spirituality. 2 Many equate pietism with spirituality, and to some degree this is justified, particularly in Protestantism where the term has been widely used. However, one must keep in mind the difference between “pietism” and “piety”. Pietism in Protestantism is associated with meditative mystical spirituality. -
BIBLIOGRAPHY of SOURCES CITED Acton, John Emerich
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES CITED Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Baron. "Protestant Theory of Persecution." In Essays on Freedom and Power, edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1972. Addinall, Peter. Philosophy and Biblical Interpretation: A Study in Nineteenth Century Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Africa, Thomas W. "Gibbon and the Golden Age." The Centennial Review 3, no. 3 (summer 1963): 273-81. Allan, David. Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993. Armstrong, A. H. "The Way and the Ways: Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in the Fourth Century A.D." Vigiliae Christianae 38, no. 1 (1984): 1-17. Aron, Ramond. The Opium of the Intellectuals. Translated by Terence Kilmartin. New York: Doubleday, 1957. Austin, Dobson. "The Gordon Riots." In Twentieth Century Essays and Address, edited by William A. J. Archbold. 1927. Reprint, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1970. Bagehot, Walter. Collected Works of Walter Bagehot. Edited by Norman St. John Stevas. 8 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965. Bakhash, Shaul. Review of Islam and the West, by Bernard Lewis, New York Review of Books 40 (October 7, 1993): 43. Beckwith, Francis 1. David Hume's Argument Against Miracles: A Critical Analysis. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989. Berlin, Isaiah. "Hume and the Sourc.es of German Anti-Rationalism." In Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, edited by Henry Hardy. New York: Penguin, 1980. Black, J. B. The Art of History. New York: F.S. Crofts and Co., 1926. Boesche, Roger. "The Politics of Pretence: Tacitus and the Political Theory of Despotism." History of Political Thought 8, no. -
“What One Word Best Describes the United States of America and Why?”
“What one word best describes the United States of America and why?” 5th Annual Pueblo Home of Heroes Association Essay Contest Winning Stories 2013 Sponsored by the Pueblo Home of Heroes Association and the Pueblo City-County Library District 2013 Pueblo Home of Heroes Association Essay Contest “What one word best describes the United States of America and why?” March 2013 The Pueblo Home of Heroes Association in cooperation with the Pueblo City-County Library District is pleased to announce the winners of its fifth Pueblo Home of Heroes Association Essay Contest. The following guidelines were required: All entries must be typed. Elementary School level – grades 4 and 5: 300-500 words Middle School level – grades 6–8: 400-700 words High School level – grades 9–12: 500-1,000 words The judges were: Doyle Cooper, Darren Cooper, Joann Fry, Andy Hauk, and Jim Stuart. There were a total of 255 entries: 91 at the elementary level, 60 at the middle school level and 104 at the high school level. The Pueblo Home of Heroes Association and the Pueblo City-County Library District wish to thank the teachers and parents for encouraging their students and children to participate in this essay contest. It was clear to the judges that the contest achieved its purpose of encouraging students to think about the foundation of our freedom and the ongoing cost in lives and effort to maintain this most precious right. 2013 Pueblo Home of Heroes Association Essay Contest Honorable Mentions Elementary School Dustin Medina Corwin International Magnet School – Ms. Jaime Quinn Kristina Aguilar Corwin International Magnet School – Ms. -
Negotiating Images of the Chinese: Representations of Contemporary Chinese and Chinese Americans on US Television
Negotiating Images of the Chinese: Representations of Contemporary Chinese and Chinese Americans on US Television A Thesis Submitted to School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Cheng Qian September, 2019 !i Negotiating Images of the Chinese: Representations of Contemporary Chinese and Chinese Americans on US Television ABSTRACT China's rise has led to increased interest in the representation of Chinese culture and identity, espe- cially in Western popular culture. While Chinese and Chinese American characters are increasingly found in television and films, the literature on their media representation, especially in television dramas is limited. Most studies tend to focus on audience reception with little concentration on a show's substantive content or style. This thesis helps to fill the gap by exploring how Chinese and Chinese American characters are portrayed and how these portrayals effect audiences' attitude from both an in-group and out-group perspective. The thesis focuses on four popular US based television dramas aired between 2010 to 2018. Drawing on stereotype and stereotyping theories, applying visual analysis and critical discourse analysis, this thesis explores the main stereotypes of the Chinese, dhow they are presented, and their impact. I focus on the themes of enemies, model minor- ity, female representations, and the accepted others. Based on the idea that the media can both con- struct and reflect the beliefs and ideologies of a society I ask how representational practice and dis- cursive formations signify difference and 'otherness' in relation to Chinese and Chinese Americans. I argue that while there has been progress in the representation of Chinese and Chinese Americans, they are still underrepresented on the screen. -
Burton (“Dr. Slop”)
The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire ~ ~ ~~ VOL. XXIII. FEBRUARY, 1913. No. 2. Burton (“Dr.Slop”) : His Forceps and His Foes. By ALBANDORAN, F.R.C.S. PART 11. FOUNDATIONOF THE YORHCOUNTY HOSPITALAND PERSECUTIONOF DR. BURTON. IN the first part of this memoir, Burton’s two forceps were described and his purely professional writings reviewed, with references to allusions in the pages of Sterne’s novel. This part will treat of hie public work, of his political labours and consequent persecution, and of Burton as an antiquary, and will end with a consideration of the doings and sayings of Dr. Slop as chronicled in Tristrarn Shandy. The history of the foundation of the York Hospital and the political entanglemenh of the learned doctor is presented to us in detail in his British Liberty Endangered. Of this work, the College of Surgeons possesses a copy, purchased at the sale of Dr. Merriman’s library. The title page, here reproduced, is missing in the College copy :- BRITISH LIBERTY ENBANGERED, a Narrative, wherein it is proved that John Burton has been a better friend to the English Constitution in Church and State than his Persecutors. 1749. “ This personal narrative of Dr. John Burton, the author of the Monasticon Eboracense, is excessively rare and gave rise to the quarrel between him and Sterne, for which the latter immor- talised Burton as Dr. Slop in his Tristram Shandy.” (Extract from Thorpe’s Catalogue, Bibliotheca Britannica, 1839, pasted in the College copy.) British LibeTty is dedicated ‘‘ To the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.” 1 “ Your Grace will pardon the Freedom I take, in dedicating the following Sheets to you, being the most proper Person I could have addressed ’em to.” The pamphlet is a relation of what happened to Dr. -
The Relation of William Law to John
THE RELATION OF WILLIAM LAW TO JOHN \YESLEY AND THE BEGINNINGS OF METHODISM, BY ERIC W. BAKER, M.A. (Cantab.). A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DIVINITY FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, 1941. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page INTRODUCTION i PART I. HISTORICAL SURVEY. Chapter I, Before 1738 1 Chapter II. 1738 19 Chapter III. 1738 to 1756 36 Chapter IV. 1756 and After 60 PART II. WESLEY'S INDEBTEDNESS TO LAW. Chapter V. The Ethical Ideal 82 Chapter VI. Practical Outworkings 110 PART III. WESLEY'S DISAGREEMENT WITH LAW. Chapter VII. Wesley's Objection to Mysticism 130 Chapter VIII. The Fundamental Doctrinal Issue 150 Chapter IX. The 1756 Letter 182 PART IV. LAW AND THE BEGINNINGS OF METHODISM. Chapter X. The Testimony of Christopher Walton 206 Chapter XI. The Influence of Law on Methodist Belief and Practice. 225 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 238 BIBLIOGRAPHY 243 INTRODUCTION. No one could tell the story of John Wesley and the beginnings of Methodism without referring to the influence exerted by the writings of William Law at one particular period of Wesley's life. When it comes, however, to assessing the permanence and importance of that influence we find a considerable disparity. Scores of volumes have been devoted to expositions of Wesley's life and work, and in many of these the references to Law are of a cursory nature and confined to one of the early chapters. Such treatment would suggest that the relationship of the two men was an episode, important enough indeed, at the time of its occurrence, but of temporary interest, which can safely be forgotten v/hen the reader passes on to Wesley's later adventures. -
After the Rain
After the Rain Dir: Takashi Koizumi, Japan/France, 1999 A review by Shulamit Almog, University of Haifa, Israel After the Rain is Takashi Koizumi's feature film debut, made in 1999, Shoji Ueda and Takao Saito as cinematographers. Akira Kurosawa wrote the screenplay, and Takashi Koizumi, who pays the late Japanese master a tribute in this film, attempted to make a film from Kurosawa's script, as he would have wished. The tribute quality of the film manifests itself most eminently when one puts After the Rain alongside Rashomon, Kurosawa's 1950 masterpiece, that is still possibly the best known Japanese film outside Japan. On the face of it, there is not much in common between the sombre, infinitely intriguing Rashomon and the delightful, lighthearted and light flooded After the Rain. In actual fact, there is a delicate web of links and connections between those two articulations, that correspond with each other. In both films most characters participate in several forms of judging, formal and informal, external and internal. They all judge and are being judged, cast adjudication and are subjected to it. In Rashomon a formal trial is depicted, alongside the internal ones. In After the Rain there is no formal trial, but all characters involved perform continuous ethical judgments of themselves and others. Rashomon begins in rain and ends with rain. Three people, who find shelter from the rain under the Rashomon gate, engage in narration. Two crimes -- a murder of a Samurai and rape of his wife -- are presented four times, in four different ways. The people at the gate renarrate the story of the formal judgment, where the different versions were first narrated, and, while doing so, judge the narrators, the characters of the narrative, and themselves.