...W. D. White John Henry Newman s Critique of Popular Preaching IF. D. White One of the ironies in recent Christian history is that the most dra­ matic symbol of the divisions in English Christendom of the nine­ teenth century has become in our time a powerful force toward unity. I am speaking...

... on the streets. It argues that an engaged academic should not only preach to the converted but, more importantly, should account for those who feel disempowered or estranged, indifferent to “politics in action,” alienated for political reasons, or opposed to the protests. A G A I N S T the D A Y Jamil Mouawad...

... obstacles. At the time when Foulques began preaching, the cru­ sade to the Holy Land was no longer novel; men were well aware of its dangers and its cost; the failure of Richard of Eng­ land and Philip Augustus of France was in the minds of every one. Yet in spite of these obstacles Foulques was able to set...

...David T. Morgan Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Great Awakening in South Carolina, 1740 1775 David T. Morgan After a successful preaching tour in the Middle Colonies and a disappointing one in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina during the last two months of 1739, George...

... to spend some time at the university in England. After remaining about a year at Claire Hall, Cambridge University, Duche returned to his home with deacon s orders and a license to preach issued by the bishop of London, and was appointed one of the assistants to the rector of Christ Church and St. Peter s...

... conversion in the fall of 1811 upon hearing the preaching of Elijah Hedding, a powerful Methodist revivalist in Boston. After this experience, however, Taylor returned to the sea and served on an American privateer in the War of 18x2. If he had not been cap­ tured by the British, he might never have become...

... they preached a religion with explicit politically messi­ anic qualities, their owners would have responded far differently, and the preachers would not have been able to function as openly and per­ sistently. As it was they pursued a more limited, but perhaps more es­ sential, goal than advocating rebellion...

... to 1947. The Crusades were only one part of the long struggle between East and West. The fall of Jerusalem to Moslem conquerors in a.d. 638 antedated the preaching of the First Crusade by more than four and one-half centuries. Yet, after this conquest, the position of the native Christians under Moslem...

... Whitefield never to preach again in the Carolinas. Whitefield s Journal notes that he replied to the Commis­ sary in his most conciliatory manner: I shall regard that as much as I would a Pope s Bull. Whitefield s Journal, David Ramsay s History of South Carolina, and other more recent accounts agree up­...

... before King. In portraying that Sunday afternoon, the film flashed back and forth between shots of Liddell preaching to the Church of Scotland congregation in Paris and the athletes competing on the field. The runner took as his text Isaiah 40: Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket...

... not admire them. Despite his antirevivalist bias, he has thrown important light on the social ideas of the men investigated. From his analysis it is clear that the leading evangelists preached a social gospel. They were in fact forerunners of the later social gospel move­ ment as led by such men...

... for more Pacific liners, greater dividends in Occidental pockets, more constant employment for Occidental labor, these are not wholly the result of diplomacy or of the merchant s display of enticing wares, but are in no small measure the result of the missionary s life, his home, his preaching, his tracts...

... is spontaneous in his reactions to it. Wilson, conversely, had friends who defended his glances into the future and did so on the grounds that he translated dreams into action, that he practiced while Roosevelt preached. As Claude Bowers wrote, The country was convinced of the genuineness of his progressivism...

... the futility of achieving any ideal purpose through war, which is brought about through a welter of well-engineered lies. His last pro­ nouncement indicates that he will never again sanction or sup­ port another war of any kind. The various positions of this outstanding churchman, who has preached...

..., or his beloved Rus­ sians, or the early Henry James. And so it involves that habit of preaching for which Thackeray is either praised or damned, a habit absolutely necessary to a person of his temperament with its thwarted bent toward romanticism. Possessed of such a disposition, Thackeray could not rest...

... practiced what he here preached. Hence from the beginning of his career he has shown his concern in the present and the future of his country by trying to in­ fluence the education of the young men of France in the three grades of schools, the primary, the secondary and the superior, as they are called...

..., tends to make the working­ man shiftless. Assuming that the individual is autonomous and that all social phenomena are shaped by his ethical choices, Ruskin be­ lieved that by preaching he could change the structure of English society. The explanation of Ruskin s failure is complicated; but a Ruskin...

... Atlantic Quarterly, and her fifth book of fiction, The River to Pickle Beach, was published by Harper and Row in 1972. 144 The South Atlantic Quarterly plain what they ll preach on, preach it, and then explain how they ve preached it? Sports commentators describing thrice what millions have already seen...

... Hornig, all those who are disinherited and outcast by life, day and night bent over the loom, in their teens already labor­ ing at the spools, in their twenties and thirties stooped like old men, losing their eyesight in the sweatshops, and hungry, hungry all life long. A play preaching socialist...

..., but the scene itself remains bound to certain logics of charisma. Stories of black women as charismatic leaders are rare, and stories of black lesbians as charismatic leaders even more so. Reverend Black is an evangelist known for her charismatic preaching as she travels throughout the US South...