Journeymen For Jesus

Author : William R. Sutton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0271017732

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When industrialization swept through American society in the nineteenth century, it brought with it turmoil for skilled artisans. Changes in technology and work offered unprecedented opportunity for some, but the deskilling of craft and the rise of factory work meant dislocation for others. Journeymen for Jesus explores how the artisan community in one city, Baltimore, responded to these life-changing developments during the years of the early republic. Baltimore in the Jacksonian years (1820s and 1830s) was America's third largest city. Its unions rivaled those of New York and Philadelphia in organization and militancy, and it was also a stronghold of evangelical Methodism. These circumstances created a powerful mix at a time when workers were confronting the negative effects of industrialism. Many of them found within Methodism and its populist spirituality an empowering force that inspired their refusal to accept dependency and second-class citizenship. Historians often portray evangelical Protestantism as either a top-down means of social control or as a bottom-up process that created passive workers. Sutton, however, reveals a populist evangelicalism that undergirded the producer tradition dominant among those supportive of trade union goals. Producers were not socialists or social democrats, but they were anticapitalist and reform-minded. In populist evangelicalism they discovered a potent language and ethic for their discontent. Journeymen for Jesus presents a rich and unromanticized portrait of artisan culture in early America. In the process, it adds to our understanding of the class tensions present in Jacksonian America.

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195148015

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God and Mammon by Mark A. Noll Pdf

This collection of essays by leading historians offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. During the first decades of the new American nation, money was everywhere on the minds of church leaders and many of their followers. Economic questions figured regularly in preaching and pamphleteering, and convictions about money contributed greatly to perceptions of morality both public and private. In fact, money was always a religious question. For this reason, argue the authors of these essays, it is impossible to understand broader cultural developments of the period--including political developments--without considering religion and economics together. In God and Mammon, several essays examine the ways in which the churches raised money after the end of establishment put a stop to state funding, such as the collection of pew rents and lotteries. Free-will offerings only came later and at first were used only for special causes, not operating expenses. Other essays look at the role of money and markets in the rise of Christian voluntary societies. Still others examine inter-denominational strife, documenting frequent accusations that theological error led to the misuse of money and the arrogance of wealth. Taken together, the essays provide essential background to a relationship that continues to loom large and generate controversy in American religious communities.

Author : William R. Sutton
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271044128

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Journeymen for Jesus by William R. Sutton Pdf

When industrialization swept through American society in the nineteenth century, it brought with it turmoil for skilled artisans. Changes in technology and work offered unprecedented opportunity for some, but the deskilling of craft and the rise of factory work meant dislocation for others. Journeymen for Jesus explores how the artisan community in one city, Baltimore, responded to these life-changing developments during the years of the early republic. Baltimore in the Jacksonian years (1820s and 1830s) was America's third largest city. Its unions rivaled those of New York and Philadelphia in organization and militancy, and it was also a stronghold of evangelical Methodism. These circumstances created a powerful mix at a time when workers were confronting the negative effects of industrialism. Many of them found within Methodism and its populist spirituality an empowering force that inspired their refusal to accept dependency and second-class citizenship. Historians often portray evangelical Protestantism as either a top-down means of social control or as a bottom-up process that created passive workers. Sutton, however, reveals a populist evangelicalism that undergirded the producer tradition dominant among those supportive of trade union goals. Producers were not socialists or social democrats, but they were anticapitalist and reform-minded. In populist evangelicalism they discovered a potent language and ethic for their discontent. Journeymen for Jesus presents a rich and unromanticized portrait of artisan culture in early America. In the process, it adds to our understanding of the class tensions present in Jacksonian America.

Author : Kenneth G. Neff
Publisher : E-Booktime Llc
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 159824793X

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Thoughts On Becoming A Journeyman by Kenneth G. Neff Pdf

A "journeyman" is someone who has learned a trade from a master. In our case, we are learning the trade of life from The Master - Jesus Christ. He has afforded us opportunities, experiences, and the responsibility to share life and our lessons. We are all in pursuit of becoming "journeymen." Ken is a "Journeyman in training." These "thoughts" (essays, poems) come from the process of working out his salvation (Philippians 2: 12) for over 30 years. Ken is a Disciple of Jesus Christ, a husband, a father, and a consultant. He is gifted in music, teaching, and communication. He has served as a Pastor and for over 20 years worked as a consultant to businesses and churches. Any written work (other than God's Word) is a snap shot of a disciple's understanding. While God's Word is unchanging, we, as disciples, are always changing and so is our understanding. Use this book to gain insight, to challenge your thinking, to create a teachable moment between you and The Master. Do not let these "Thoughts" replace God's Word or God's Work in you.

Author : David Smith
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490898452

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Get On The Journey by David Smith Pdf

What is Get On The Journey? Several years ago I felt led to start writing men’s devotions. They were primarily written for JourneyMen, men on a journey and walking with Christ. I soon found out that my devotions were not only being read by JourneyMen but also by women on the journey. Daily and “manly” activities end up being themes for devotion. God’s Word can be applied to my life, and in turn to your life, through these devotions. Devotion life topics include fishing, washing the car, cleaning the pool, watching television, Peyton Manning being released, working, sleeping, winning, losing, granite shopping, etc. Each devotional also contains probing questions that can be used for self-examination or for small group study. Get On The Journey contains fifty-two devotions that recap a year of my life and writing but can be read and explored on your journey at your own pace. —David Smith, Journeymen Why should you get on the journey? “Through trials and temptations God will strengthen our faith as we journey in the race of life. It is here I find David’s devotionals an inspiration for each one of us who gather together in the name of Christ. David has a special talent for reflecting life’s circumstances as a tool to help us all join in the race together. Sometimes we laugh, and sometimes we cry. As you read David’s devotionals, meditate on your own life circumstances. Consider how God is shaping and molding you to be a JourneyMan—a man on a journey in life with Jesus as his Savior.” —Pastor Rod Lindemann, Journeymen

Author : Kyle T. Bulthuis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479831340

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Four Steeples Over the City Streets by Kyle T. Bulthuis Pdf

In the fifty years after the Constitution was signed in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolis of over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a once tightknit community and its religious experience. These effects were felt by Trinity Episcopal Church, which had presented itself as a uniting influence in New York, that connected all believers in social unity in the late colonial era. As the city grew larger, more impersonal, and socially divided, churches reformed around race and class-based neighborhoods. Trinity’s original vision of uniting the community was no longer possible. In Four Steeples over the City Streets, Kyle T. Bulthuis examines the histories of four famous church congregations in early Republic New York City—Trinity Episcopal, John Street Methodist, Mother Zion African Methodist, and St. Philip’s (African) Episcopal—to uncover the lived experience of these historical subjects, and just how religious experience and social change connected in the dynamic setting of early Republic New York. Drawing on a range of primary sources, Four Steeples over the City Streets reveals how these city churches responded to these transformations from colonial times to the mid-nineteenth century. Bulthuis also adds new dynamics to the stories of well-known New Yorkers such as John Jay, James Harper, and Sojourner Truth. More importantly, Four Steeples over the City Streets connects issues of race, class, and gender, urban studies, and religious experience, revealing how the city shaped these churches, and how their respective religious traditions shaped the way they reacted to the city. (Publisher).

Author : William Robert Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Artisans
ISBN : OCLC:29555008

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"To Grind the Faces of the Poor" by William Robert Sutton Pdf

Author : Daniel R. Mandell
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421437118

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The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 1600–1870 by Daniel R. Mandell Pdf

Informing current discussions about the growing gap between rich and poor in the United States, The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America is surprising and enlightening.

Author : Jonathan A. Glickstein
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813921155

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American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety by Jonathan A. Glickstein Pdf

What, then, was the supposed role of poverty, the fear of poverty, and other negative work incentives in the era of early industrial capitalism and escalating sectional conflict over slavery? American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety examines a wide spectrum of antebellum American thought on these and related issues, including slavery and cheap immigrant and female sweated labor."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Daniel Walker Howe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199726578

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What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe Pdf

The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. A panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. Railroads, canals, newspapers, and the telegraph dramatically lowered travel times and spurred the spread of information. These innovations prompted the emergence of mass political parties and stimulated America's economic development from an overwhelmingly rural country to a diversified economy in which commerce and industry took their place alongside agriculture. In his story, the author weaves together political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history. Howe examines the rise of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party, but contends that John Quincy Adams and other Whigs--advocates of public education and economic integration, defenders of the rights of Indians, women, and African-Americans--were the true prophets of America's future. In addition, Howe reveals the power of religion to shape many aspects of American life during this period, including slavery and antislavery, women's rights and other reform movements, politics, education, and literature. Howe's story of American expansion culminates in the bitterly controversial but brilliantly executed war waged against Mexico to gain California and Texas for the United States. Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize Finalist, 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Oxford History of the United States The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative.

Author : Knofel Staton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579105037

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Meet Jesus by Knofel Staton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN : UOM:39015078342543

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Journal of Presbyterian History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gregory R. Perry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666704150

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The Drama of Discipleship by Gregory R. Perry Pdf

How do Christ’s followers reach across the dividing lines of our culture to offer hospitality and hope? How do local congregations worship God faithfully on Sunday and bear witness to their neighbors with fitting words and deeds during the week? Christ has called his people to follow the ways of his kingdom in their homes, workplaces, schools, churches, and neighborhoods. The Drama of Discipleship is a resource for being and making disciples of Jesus in the everyday tasks of being human. Each episode offers at least one group activity that is designed to catalyze group action on your local stage and build your congregation's practice of taking off the old ways of being human and putting on the true image of God—Christ. The Drama concludes with additional tools for those who lead small groups in the heartwork of discipleship, as well as a neighborhood survey for those who lead congregations in the fieldwork of discipling the nations.

Author : Kyle Timothy Bulthuis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African American churches
ISBN : UCAL:X76750

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Four Steeples Over the City Streets by Kyle Timothy Bulthuis Pdf

Author : Walter Raleigh Houghton
Publisher : Chicago : F. T. Neely
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN : WISC:89032347270

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Neely's History of The Parliament of Religions and Religious Congresses at the World's Columbian Exposition by Walter Raleigh Houghton Pdf