Evangelicals at a Crossroads: Revivalism and Social Reform in Boston, 1860-1910
Revivalism and Social Reform in Boston, 1860-1910
Publication Year: 2011
Published by: University of New Hampshire Press
Cover
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Title Page
Contents
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pp. vii-
Acknowledgments
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pp. ix-xi
Crossroads—both literal and figurative—can be creative places where one feels gratitude for one’s companions along the way, or they can be places of considerable loneliness and confusion. The writing of this book has thankfully been characterized...
Introduction
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pp. 1-14
In recent years, prominent American evangelicals such as Jim Wallis and Rick Warren have described themselves as “nineteenth-century evangelicals” and have expressed their desire to take contemporary evangelicals “back to the nineteenth...
1. D. L. Moody Arrives in a Changing Boston: “There Is a Magnetism in His Voice”
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pp. 15-31
No single event better represents the evangelical crossroads in Boston in the late nineteenth century than the 1877 Moody revival. Like a magnifying glass focusing the sun’s energy into one spot, the Moody campaign illustrates how a wide variety of evangelicals...
2. The Early Years of Evangelical Institution Building, 1858–1883: “Good! You’ve Got the Fire in You”
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pp. 33-64
In order to set the context of evangelical beginnings in social reform it is necessary to go back twenty years prior to the 1877 Moody revival, to a time immediately preceding the Civil War when postmillennial optimism coursed through the veins of New England...
3. Evangelicals and Boston Politics: “The Next Protestant Move Will Be No Boys’ Play”
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pp. 65-92
Evangelical enthusiasm for institution building and revivalism in the years immediately prior to and following the Civil War was accompanied by equal enthusiasm for more explicitly political activity in Boston. Upstart evangelicals, as they viewed their crossroads...
4. The Salvation Army and Other Evangelical Organizations Led by Women, 1884–1892: “Aggressive Christianity”
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pp. 93-116
It was pouring rain on March 23, 1869, in Boston, but this could not keep six Methodist women from gathering at Tremont Street Methodist Episcopal Church in the South End for the founding meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Woman’s Foreign...
5. Evangelical Consensus and Division: “All of This Confusion and Hurt”
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pp. 117-135
There is no precise “crossroads moment” in the history of Boston evangelicalism, where one group of evangelicals marched decisively down one road and another went a different direction. Rather than Robert Frost’s image of two roads diverging in the peace...
6. The North End and South End in the 1890s: “Let Us Re-take the North End for Methodism”
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pp. 137-164
Boston had become the most Catholic city in America by 1890. The evangelicals had to adapt to this changing environment. Accepting this change was not easy for Protestants even though the signs of this new demographic reality had been building...
Conclusion: “The Most Marvelous Revival of All of Her History”
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pp. 165-179
In 1906 and 1909 Boston once again played host to two dynamic evangelists who sought to bring revival to the city as D. L. Moody had done thirty years earlier. Moody had died in 1899, and the visiting evangelists, local pastors, and laypersons invoked his memory...
Notes
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pp. 181-253
Bibliography
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pp. 255-276
Index
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pp. 277-288
E-ISBN-13: 9781584659419
E-ISBN-10: 1584659416
Print-ISBN-13: 9781584659280
Page Count: 304
Publication Year: 2011
Series Title: Revisiting New England
