Nathan O Hatch and John H. Wigger (Editors). Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture.
Nathan O. Hatch (editor) is Professor of history at the University of Notre Dame while John H. Wigger (editor) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Nathan O. Hatch has authored and edited several other books which include: Democratization of American Christianity ((Author), The search for America Christianity (author), the professions in American history (Author) and the Sacred cause of liberty; Republican thought and millennium revolutionary England (Author). John Wigger has authored Taking heaven by Storm.
This book is about the rise in the number of Methodists in the America between the Revolution and the civil war, and the ways in which Methodism came to reflect and to influence the character of American life. The editors discusses the fourscore years between the era of the American Revolution and that of the Civil War as a decisive moment of change in America history. They both state that the change has four sides to it. In this change the editors agree that it was the center of gravity of American religion, which worked powerfully to Christianize popular culture, from social position, and above all, proclaimed the moral responsibility of everyone to think and act for themselves.
The mainspring of the second awakening they argue was that religion in America became dominated by the interests and aspirations of the ordinary people, Pg 41. From this the editors point out that Methodist machinery of prayer and class meetings received crucial community support. They point out that Methodist theology emphasized God’s free grace and the responsibility of each person to embrace that grace, as they argue a message that fits well in the cultural context of post revolutionary America.
Nathan O. Hatch (editor) is Professor of history at the University of Notre Dame while John H. Wigger (editor) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Nathan O. Hatch has authored and edited several other books which include: Democratization of American Christianity ((Author), The search for America Christianity (author), the professions in American history (Author) and the Sacred cause of liberty; Republican thought and millennium revolutionary England (Author). John Wigger has authored Taking heaven by Storm.
This book is about the rise in the number of Methodists in the America between the Revolution and the civil war, and the ways in which Methodism came to reflect and to influence the character of American life. The editors discusses the fourscore years between the era of the American Revolution and that of the Civil War as a decisive moment of change in America history. They both state that the change has four sides to it. In this change the editors agree that it was the center of gravity of American religion, which worked powerfully to Christianize popular culture, from social position, and above all, proclaimed the moral responsibility of everyone to think and act for themselves.
The mainspring of the second awakening they argue was that religion in America became dominated by the interests and aspirations of the ordinary people, Pg 41. From this the editors point out that Methodist machinery of prayer and class meetings received crucial community support. They point out that Methodist theology emphasized God’s free grace and the responsibility of each person to embrace that grace, as they argue a message that fits well in the cultural context of post revolutionary America.
Both editors agree that early Methodism was a complex phenomenon and incapable of reduction to any single economic or political orientation. Methodist culture instilled habits of industry, sobriety, and mutual accountability. The editors’ point of that Methodism offered individual assurance
